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I like sea bass. But people keep telling me that I should not eat it, or at least not the Chilean sea bass which they say is being over fished. Click here for more . http://www.endangeredfishalliance.org/ Apparently swordfish, the orange roughy and the sturgeon are also now so overfished that they face extinction. But surely we've heard all this before. In 1998 the "Give Swordfish A Break" campaign run by an outfit called SeaWeb. Chilean sea bass extinction scares started a bit later, after the sea bass was named Bon Appetit Magazine's 2001 "Dish of the Year." The campaign "Take a Pass on Sea Bass" was soon exposed as a scam to encourage people by fish from seafood marketers such as EcoFish, a commercial distributor whose slogan is "helping people make meals that reflect their morals". Ecofish get their fish certified by an outfit called the Marine Stewardship Council which issues its seal of approval to fisheries adhering to certain environmental guidelines -- including, of course, the myth of protecting overfished and endangered species such as Atlantic swordfish and Chilean sea bass. In 2002 the U.S. Departments of State and Commerce declared unequivocally that Chilean sea bass was not an endangered species. So the whole episode might have been expected to die down. |
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