How "krab" is made from Pacific Whiting | Oregon Field Guide
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- In the 1990s, a successful fishery developed around a once-undesirable fish, the Pacific whiting. Follow the production of “imitation crab” off the coast of Newport, Oregon, from the ocean to the grocery store.
This “Oregon Field Guide” story premiered on Feb. 1, 1996.
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I miss this kind of documentary.
Thank you very much for releasing on this on TH-cam, Oregon Public Broadcasting.
We need all the public broadcasting now more than ever.
I like imitation crab. I don’t think of it like crab. It isn’t crab. It’s really it’s own thing.
theres crab in it
I agree. Not crab. Not even "imitation" crab. A unique and delicious seafood product.
"Krab"
Mmmm... I love crabs!!! Whoo!
@@BruceAlarieSometimes it doesnt! It’ll still have shrimp extracts but won’t have any crab at all.
This looks and feels like it was filmed in the 80’s, lol.
Early 90's, so ya basically
It said this show in the notes premiered in Feb, 1996
90s
Leather Members Only jacket!
Yeah...United States looks beatiful back then without all the infrastructure. I doubt that shot of the Compost Farm still looks like that today...
Had no idea how those krab legs were made. I love eating them with cocktail sauce.
Nasty
I had a buddy go to Alaska last winter on a commercial fishing boat. When he came home I asked him “anything I should avoid, that’s actually gross?” He said without hesitation “artificial crab.” Up until that point I loved it, I still eat it once in a while but it’s still in the back of my mind lol.
I graduated Highschool from Newport High in 95. Worked at a cafe across the street from where the boats brought the whiting in. I recognized the buildingb with it's mural of Keiko the whale.
Are you talking about the building at 4:00 ? If so those look like local grey whales.
@@PetraDarklander tbh, I don't recall, I do see what you're saying... which reminds me, what did happen to Keiko?
@@jesseyoung4295 There is a full video about him if you search a bit in youtube. But a lot of money and a lot of effort went into re-habilitating him so he could live on his own in the open ocean. He eventually died a few months after they released him. Look up that video it really is a good watch.
4:45 the horror. the total contempt of conscience. an unholy lovecraftian paste
@@dennettshane1929 I’d like to know the names of the chemicals they are using.
That was awesome the mechanical monitor looking at seas floor was so cool and yes this was effective I see
yes compost! i put fish parts in my yard as well! its good for the soil
Mmmm...Made me hungry for some Khlav Kalash and Crab Juice.
@@peterbird3932 Better than Mountain Dew.
'twisted into never ending crab legs' is this heaven?!
Mix it with cream cheese, a little dill, and fresh lemon juice and you got a good crab dip. Some people like a little horseradish in it as well.
no, you have imitation garbage
I used to help process surimi in Dutch Harbor Alaska. It’s an interesting and clean process from start to finish.
Fish in compost isn't unique, natives have putting fish under corn for thousands of years.
bears do it all the time naturally with salmon. they eat most of the fish and the guts just sit there on the side feeding the trees, the side of the river, the river
@@aaroncapricorn5867 more like the bears just eat the guts and leave the rest of the fish. Bears literally only tear the belly out because it has the most nutrition and fat. The meat isn't as nutritious to them.
Bears don’t extract 120,000 lbs per bear per day.
The dude explicitly said it was "new into a bag" and "no one has bagged this before".
Great watch! Well made and very good style.
Shoutout to the guy in the Atlanta Braves cap at 2:41!
Some old footage ,the sounder on that boat was old school 🎉❤
So imitation crab is the hotdog of the marine food market.
Fascinating. Horrifying, but fascinating.
All " processed food products " are.
At least the imitation food is still food.
Lots of fake food that isn't food out there.
Over 100,000ib of fish “we aren’t taking that much”
My favourite seafood has been a ruse all along!
They are very good value and "popular" with my dog, she loves them!
They should use seaweed and make it cheaper
Good ol' fashioned fish legs
Thanks I will never eat immatation crab again! ☺️😁👍🤙
Honestly, I knew it was mashed-up fish, & this video made me feel a whole lot better about it! It could also be a combination of my learning how good fish is in making great soil, & seeing what the fish actually is & how it's processed.
theres something eldritch and terrifying about an endless crab leg
Imagine diving into a large bin of Krab and eating and eating and eating just butter everywhere
Really fantastic.
Great content. Though I wonder where Hake is today regarding it's demand.
"Know" is a strong word
This looks and sounds like a report from the 90s.
This “Oregon Field Guide” story premiered on Feb. 1, 1996
No shit, thanks for the observation
Any ocean fish today put into compost is going to have MERCURY in it.
A very good point
@@MrSpliffy2 Same for the guano that is sold from the sea birds that feed on the ocean fish.
@davidb2206 yeah it was really good of them to dump all the mercury at sea. While simultaneously hiding the truth of the benefits mercury would have given.us. robbed we were 😀 and they're at it again. Shouting reset. You couldn't make it up
That waste would be GREAT as tinned cat food or dog food. Can't see why that wasn't immediately logical. Or even frozen bait
wow i never knew i thought it was cuttlefish maybe
That fishery is one of the reasons why salmon production in California Washington in Oregon is low thereby catch on salmon is ridiculous and when they’ve caught the quota for their limit of buy catch for salmon they just increase it so they can keep fishing it’s ridiculous
What?
speak English lad
@@danielbartleson5746 that net full of fish you seen in this video is probably only half full of the fish they're looking for the rest gets dumped back into the ocean dead
Soylent Surimi. Interesting.
Wait a minute so they have so much waste they don’t know what to do with it, but they want them to increase the limit of how much they can catch. How’s that math mathing?
They don't care about anything but money that's what's up.
The waste is the byproduct of the fish that is not useable. For example the entrails or other unwanted parts. Not the filets of the fish. Not all components of the fish are usable, and thus these scraps are discarded into waste.
Another smoothbrain take accelerated to the top comments.
Probably a high percentage of what they catch is unusable and rejected. Kinda makes it all seem pointless but if there's a huge supply that's cheap, I suppose it works out economically
@@lokidude100 Those smooth brains just elected Trump today.
So gross fish becomes gross processed food. The fish equivalent of pink slime.
Correct
Hake/Whiting/Pollock is a low nutrition trash fish. Is it made nutritious in surimi? Or is it still a low nutrition fish in the surimi state?
It's complete rubbish mate
i am not eating it and i have another reason why not :D Thank you!
THATS A LOT OF FISH IN ONE SCOOP... WOW... AND PRECISE NETTING SKILLS... WELL DONE TEAM... PLEASE KEEPEM COMMIN... WE ARE ALL WITH YOU...
I have easy access to crab andI still like it.
love to see it
I remember trying imitation krab in the mid-1980s and liked it right away. 1980s krab had a lot of flavor and by the late 1990s I noticed that brands like TransOcean tasted really bland, but Louis Kemp still had decent flavor. Now they are all bland, so it appears they cut back on the real crab flavoring because it must be the costliest ingredient.
why are the waste not used for making biogas. In Denmark we use most waste in biogas facilities
Eyy, I used to live there. Be sure to check out Mo's on the waterfront (or their other locations) for great food!
5:41 I swear I heard a heavy metal riff slowly fading in there...
I have asked several Subway employees about this what is artificial Krab , nice to get an answer.
Do you think some high schooler making minimum wage slapping turkey on bread knows what imitation crab is?
It’s not random, it’s on the menu. But no, and after seeing this video the answer would be longer then I expected.
@@alyssa0411 I did...30+ years ago! (I was just out of HS then).
Ahh the white slime.
mmmmm1 Tasty slime!
Wow the Automatic Filleting machine
Great, until man adds in the chemical soup! Commonly adding sugar &/or artificial sweetener sorbitol, food coloring, vegetable oils, even MSG. It is nutritional deficient as compared to crab. Bottom line, it's highly processed. My Bottom Line: NO THANKS!
But so appreciate OPB's informative videos!
Right on
I love processed food! "You are what you eat." That makes me well preserved.
Oh no... *not* MSG! 😲🙄
@@ChadwickHorn Many people are allergic to it.
@@thePrisoner1000 if 1 in 10 000 is many, then yeah sure.
Where should one look for follow up information since this video came out in '96?
Cancer doctors...
From a 2023 article about Oregon fisheries called "Let Them Eat Hake" --
"...Commercial fishers landed about 287 million pounds of fish and shellfish in Oregon in 2022, roughly 68 pounds per Oregonian. Nearly 60% of this volume consisted of pacific whiting, also known as hake, which is mostly used to make surimi."
So by volume, whiting has become the most-caught seafood product in Oregon. But dollar-wise, Dungeness crab was -- and still is -- the most valuable.
Chemical shitstorm
Don't forget your spoon!
never understood why people don't just eat the actual fish, instead of preferring a highly processed mystery product just because it looks like something else that's desirable.
I think it’s krap…course I live on Gulf Coast and we have fresh blue crab…
Fresh dungeness crab makes blue crab taste like crawfish! 😂
Mr. Krab, from Sponge Bob, is gonna get mad that his secret ingredient for his Krabby Patties has been leaked...!!! I see a lawsuit coming..!!
(fish being processed) "MY LEG!!! MY EYES!!!"
I"ve only watched a few minutes of the show with my niece. How does that Sponge guy have a grill at the bottom of the ocean? Wouldn't the fire go out?
@@drmodestoesq Have some fun for once in your life man jesus christ it's a children's show for gods sake
Heck yeah
Love a krab salad sandwich with tomato and lettuce
After watching this I will never eat imitation crab anymore
Excellent. But…now….years later we have a lot of questions. Are there still fish out there? 2024
@ 6:30 No gloves when working with perishable food ? 🤔🤔🤔
We need to duplicate the composting process so we can use it for our US gardens, eliminating wasting it in the dumps.
Anyone remember Subway's seafood sandwich?
I would be afraid to eat anything out of Oregon or Washington. They have thrown standards down the toilet.
We wouldn’t be able to have crab Rangoon without fake crab.
More Krab please
when was this filmed??
neat!
wasn't fake crab made from Pollock?
Yes! It can be from a few ground fish. Haddock, pollock, hake, pacific cod... all "similiar" quality fish for mass produced fish sandwiches/fish sticks n what not
Next, show how CHICKEN NUGGETS are made from ALPO!
I love the bycatch. It’s a shame it gets wasted.
Not long before the ocean will be like man make lake and will have to stock it
Most countries have harvest limits based on scientific research in regards to each particular species. Only certain countries still engage in unsustainable practice. Take a guess on the main offender.
😂my gummie bears come from a fish 😂
Trawling needs to end.
Why most nations have catch limits based on scientific study. If they don't do it people with no such care will step in. Its about standards not all fishing.
I just spent 8 hours on a party boat to catch a lousy 5 hake. I wonder why...
Always liked the imitation crab meat. I tell my wife it's just fish. There is a stigma about the stuff being made bad quality.
This is everything wrong with how humanity sees and exploits nature
Raping the seas😢
There are over 8,000,000,000 humans on Earth today, and they're all hungry. What's the right way for humanity to see and exploit nature?
sustainably@@ROGER2095
Surimi is another good protein to help feed the people. People complaining about exploiting nature. When you realize that just the Pacific Ocean alone is 64,000,000. square miles, that's (64 million) sq. miles, it makes you realize how big that area is for man to pull food out of .We do over fish some species of fish but only when they are closer to home. We are just a dot in the big picture.
boy if only internet was around during the fur trade years. you'd have something to say then wouldn't you? i'm talking 17th, 18th, 19th centuries
Black soldier fly larvae, I'm sure, would eat up the fish waste, then you would be left with just skin and bones and larvae waste and have live larvae as a sellable product.
The only thing, it seems like feeding meat to the larvae causes their water to stink, but it might be because I kept it too wet, I'm not sure.
...and then use the soldier fly larvae to make the surimi! Sorry my little backyard hens no more bugs for you! That'll teach you for trying to steal my ice cream cone! True story.
How often do the fish spawn?
they live for 13 -15 years and are sexually mature at 3-4 years old.
Not crab. It’s fish … with some crustacean added ….
What is this? "Seafood extender"? I thought that was crab meat. That looks like it would go well in a soup or hotpot dish 😅
Over 100K lbs in 1 day is not over-harvesting?
What are the Whiting stocks like these days?
@MRMORGAN817 they were fished into near extinction, primaily by illegal fishing from the Chinese fleet
@@user-wj9wq7mk4h why does the world's greatest ever super power unable to protect its own border and resources?
@@MRMORGAN817 because the whiting stock has been depleted
Imitation crab is the spam of the sea. Its super procecced meat product and its super fake but man is it good
He said “steaming sheets”
I camped under that bridge a few times illegally..Hobo 4 life...
Yum yum yum
No thanks 😅
Mmm trailer park sushi
4:48 I wonder what it smells like in that factory 🤔
Bon Appétit USA 😢
If that waste was put back into the ocean wouldn’t that feed the rest of the food chain.
I wish I could eat even imitation crab. I’m allergic to all shell fish and you’d think that imitation would be safe. But nope! In the ingredients, they add real crab “juice” for flavoring and that is so deadly dangerous for shell fish allergy peeps.
I see this and still eat them. Not proud of it, but I do.
ok you work out how to use it. now work out how to make it taste like crab. This should be called something else, taste nothing like crab meat. And no it is not all that great, its just ok.
Exactly!
Using different chemicals and flavorings they claim (and label) it to mimic crab and lobster, but it tastes nothing like either one no matter what they do to it.
The only way I find it even slightly palatable is hidden in a salad mixture.
Look at all that fish paste. Imagine drinking your head in it.
mmmm yummy...
Great production value if this was 1978.
Barf!
The soil isn't vegetarian anymore.