Vox Hunt: Very limited time
Show us a discontinued food or product you wish would return.
Submitted by Shawn.
This is a delicious Pacific Northwest Chinook salmon.
You may recognize him a little better in this photo.
We're going to be seeing a lot less of him. Chinook salmon numbers have dropped so far that even salmon fisherman are asking the government to institute a ban on fishing. That's where we've got to, you hungry bastards. Various right wing types have often poo-poo'd the possibility of such a situation, but we're finally seeing the real likelihood that some of our favorite seafood is going to be unavailable for many years, and maybe forever if we don't reign in our consumption levels.
Same goes for this big guy: the blue fin tuna.
Or, as you may know him: Mr. Tuna Roll.
What's for lunch?
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I guess the reason the spotted owl got no respect is because not enough people felt they's good eatin'.
I used to love a good grilled slab of swordfish. Bit I stopped eating it years ago, when the alarm first went out that their numbers were starting to plummet.
What a maw humanity has. I don't know much about the self-control the fishing industry itself has, so I won't comment on that.
I don't know what I'm going to have for lunch. I left it at home.
Speak for yourself, bubba. (HOO, bang, sizzle, nom, nom, nom, burp, ahh)
Seriously, here in Florida, we actually had grouper shortages due to overfishing. The fish cops changed "harvesting" regulations, and the fishies have come back. I just love the term "harvesting." It's not like we plant replacement groupers.
This reminds of the link from National Geographic I posted here before. Maybe I should go find it (lazy...). The article made me just sick about how the Blue Fin Tuna may be going the way of the Dodo bird in the next 10-20 years. A little bit of regulation is in order, people aren't going to regulate themselves.
If people want to know more about 'safe' fish, check out the Seafood Watch page and lists from our friends at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Seems less and less like fiction.
I would have added Cod. That great British staple of the fish & chip shop. Even though it now costs nearly £5.00 for a piece of fried cod, it is still the best selling fish in chippies.
Depressing don't cover it.
http://www.blueocean.org/seafood/
www.blueocean.org
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so what the fuck are we supposed to eat? Twinkies and kudzu?