The ocean floor is uprooted every time a trawler comes by, and the markets are still selling what they do find. This is a fish caught in the cross hairs of demand and questionable supply.
New Jersey also has five major commercial fishing ports: Belford (just north of Sandy Hook), Point Pleasant, Cape May, Atlantic City and Barnegat Light. Out of these ports are numerous species of fish and shell-fish that can be fished year-round without depleting our waters.
Bluefin Tuna**
For years sushi aficionados have reserved their most lavish praise — and their spare cash — for bluefin tuna, the fatty, pinkish fish featured at highend restaurants across the globe. But as wild stocks of the fish have plummeted, ordering bluefin has become as socially unacceptable as consuming the once-ubiquitous Chilean sea bass.
Now, Virginia’s Monterey Bay Fish Grotto restaurant has joined a small group of U.S. restaurants selling a bluefin tuna dubbed Kindai, farmed from hatched eggs in Japan as the result of a university laboratory’s efforts to ease diners’ consciences. Though the product is not fully sustainable, it underscores how fish suppliers and academic innovators are seeking to satisfy consumer demand without wiping out wild populations altogether.
Sustainability
Several other examples can be cited — on ways to sustain our seafood — and operators and consumers continue to demand product from companies that lead in resource conservation. Find out more ways on how Sysco is committed to sustainability by visiting www.sysco.com and downloading the 2008 Sustainability Report.
*Source: NANCY SCHNEIDER -- The Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey), March 1, 2009 Sunday MARCH EDITION
**Source:By Juliet Eilperin - Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, March 11, 2009
