You could have just typed that question into Google instead of sitting here being lazy and asking for someone else to do the work for you. Be glad this man has pointed you in the right way...don't ask him to carry you there either smh.
You jokers are annoying. This short is educational. The purpose of the guys channel is to educate people about fishing. He can give us another short on how to support our local fisherman, and us watching it will directly benefit him.
This person is also giving an opportunity for the creator to make more content. Are they lazy? Maybe but they’re also the target audience consuming the content.
Yea tylenol is absolutely correct. No matter how he may seem to you, the content creator now knows/has a direct suggestion from someone interested in the information provided.
@@ofsabir you are also wrong corporate greed is a problem with the people in charge not a problem with the system the problem also arises with the fact that we the consumers do not research companies and just mindlessly buy. capitalism is just a system in which people freely exchange goods and services which are called capital money is just a representation of capital. Greed is an unfortunate byproduct but that should not mean we just give up and throw out a system that has been developing in the field for millennia in exchange for a system developed by 2 bums at a desk who had no Idea about how things actually worked.
@@galladegamer6950hate to break it to ya but capitalism is also quite a modern concept, about 2-300 years old. There are many isolated systems that have led to many of our modern socialist and capitalist economic and political systems around the world. The reason capitalism is so widespread is because it is the US's chosen economic system, and because the US has been the dominant world power for so long it has been adopted by much of the world. It is not the culmination of world political history. Given that we can see it has many issues, it is our duty to improve if not change it all together, rather than just leaving it to rot and devolve even further
@@liemh9290 no, it’s frozen. The salmon and trout I catch sometimes stay in the freezer for a year and it still tastes way better than store bought. You have to bleed them out and gut them before freezing
I had some tuna and swordfish gifted by a local fisherman here in NE and it was the best fish I ever ate (I don't eat a lot of fish, but if it always tasted as good as this I would eat more)
lol, I am sure it isn't just United States, but the whole world itself. We have local vegetables, but when I went to grocer, they are imported from Australia, New Zealand, China, Africa and etc.
Vegetables there's a good reason for. Naturally most farm grown foods only produce in certain seasons, so in order for us to have year round vegetables and fruit they need to be imported from somewhere who's currently in that growing season when the US might currently not be. Otherwise food would only be available during certain months
Also, many fruits and vegetables ripen over time, so it becomes more viable to harvest early and let the produce ripen while shipping instead of trying to sell your ripe produce as quickly as possible.
I’m from the oldest fishing seaport America (Gloucester, MA)…. Our OWN GOVERNEMENT put our fleet out of business because they want to buy fish from foreign governments….
Gloucester is turning into a tourist trap and they treat us like dirt. We have to move all our lobster traps off of a *WARF* so people from CT and NY can look at our boats and take pictures.
No. Overfishing. And the science the Gov used to glean their data… is SUSPECT at best. I know. They used civilians to be “watchers and counters” on the boats…. The only problem being, NO SANE PERSON would stay on an off shore fishing vessel for weeks at a time…. So they resorted to hiring ANYONE to do the job…. Mostly drug addicts looking for free cash…. No joke.
The govt prices out the local fisherman. While foreign fishermen are allowed to fish U.S. waters at a discount. The difference is paid, again, by the citizens.
I wish it were true, but buying fresh fish at the docks in San Diego is not cheaper. They match the prices of the local fish markets. Whatever they can’t sell at the docks ends up being sold to said fish markets at wholesale prices.
Exactly, local fisherman are Americans and thus charge appropriately for their labor. They have no incentive to sell their superior product for less than the store.
Where I live, they charge a premium bc it’s local. “Local” is now a marketing buzzword like, organic, free-range, grass-fed, hormone-free. Just how much do you want to pay for your protein?
The US is completely backwards on some of it's industries. We have some of the best waters and land and yet choose to import lesser quality because it's cheaper.
When the US had commercial fishing they wiped out the local fishery. Look at Atlantic cod, Goliath groupers or sharks. The US has abundant fishes because commercial fishing is either banned or severely limited in favor of sport fishing or conservation.
@savage22bolt32 lobster fishery is collapsing in Maine and New England. Population is down around 70%. Despite heavy regulations the population is not doing well under commercial fishing.
As a former charter and commercial fisherman, I approve this message. You can taste the difference 100%. Over 10 yrs of working on boats I became such a seafood snob, I won't even eat fish at a nice restaurant because it's not fresh. Catch of the day? I've supplied to restaurants and they serve it the 1 to 3 days later. Not saying every place is like this but the restaurant will always say it's "fresh"
U dnt need a boat Mostly boat searches for lazy people who don't want to put in any actual work and want to depend on their technology to do the fishing for them instead of learning the art.
I grew up in alaska, and the importing issue was so bad there was a whole movement dedicated to growing and selling local fruits and vegtables. They were way cheaper and higher quality than any imported stuff.
@@LaurenJayx0that’s honestly crazy I hunt for most of my meat if I had better cleaner waters around me I’d definitely eat the fish but sadly I’d rather have cancer fish than sewage fish ☹️
That completely untrue. I know someone that does exactly that as a business. His company flies in shipments of all kinds of seafood from Alaska, Asia, and Mexico and sells to restaurants and nice grocery stores in the Midwest.
Blame the politicians that put in restrictions so it’s harder for domestic and other locals to thrive and then also blame the FDA… 2 main problems right there
@@TheAxeaman manipulation attempt? Get America first representatives in there and you won't have to worry about lobbyists. Lobbyists don't pass bills or laws. I'm blaming those directly involved... lobbyists are down the list.
Truth! I am a recreational fisherman. The taste is very noticeable and so is the quality. I’m pretty sure that it can also be a health hazard eatting old fish rather than fresh local fish. Also, great video… thank you so much for sharing.
Dont forget unfair practices and illegal, unregulated, unreported (IUU) fishing being quite common in some countries fishing fleets. Sometimes transshipment of fish at sea can also be problematic as illegally caught fish can be laundered with the clean ones.
And for those of us that are in a landlocked state? I love Atlantic salmon, halibut, sockeye, and Mahi Mahi but can't catch that unless I drive about 600 miles
I live in a 3rd world country and yeah it's cheaper to buy that way than buying it on a local market when we ask why is it more expensive the truth is renting market place but they understand if we buy on the more cheaper side coz after those fish vendor sell all their product they also do buy on the cheapest one for their meal for the day we know it's not gonna be fresh but we need to be more practical 💯👍
I’m an attorney, but I’m a fisherman enthusiast and I do both fresh and salt water fishing. I don’t even buy fish from the grocery store, what I do is every other week I take a trip from Atlanta to Savannah and go out on intercostal waters near the Gulf Stream because you can find the best deep sea fish in warmer waters. Or I take a trip to Northern Georgia and fish near the Appalachians. Either way, I use fishing to get closer with my family especially how busy I am. My dad is a former Vietnam vet who taught me fishing at an early age, never forgot about getting tackle stuck in my Afro when I was a little boy in the late 70’s. Fishing also helped my dad and I get interested in weather, especially hurricanes. We passed our passion to my oldest daughter, and now she’s a meteorologist for NWS Charleston while working on getting hired by NHC since she specializes in hurricanes
and the fact that they over fish in spawning grounds make it doubly perverse. For an eye opener on the North Atlantic depletion of the fisheries read the book “Cod - a biography of a fish that changed the world” by Martin Kulansky
Well it’s also because most of the grocery store fish is farm raised. Which is significantly cheaper and sometimes less risky (parasites) than wild caught, and is why local fisherman often charge more.
Well that and the government and aquariums are against our fishing industry in New England. Including lobstering which has practiced sustainability since the 1800’s.
Yeah I have seen videos of a lobster fisher who puts a notch in the tails of lobster and gives them snacks before throwing them back if they have eggs or are too big.
@galladegamer6950 Exactly. Thank the government and highschool kids in aquariums for destroying the only sustainable fishery in New England over 300 whales that are destined to go extinct (and it’s not because of lobstering)
@TheAxeaman They do shutdowns based on right whale sightings. A whale that is destined to go extinct due to being hunted in the 1800’s. And now all these wind farms they build could also be killing them, but they’re never the problem. just ask them.
Another thing about foreign fish is that you may not actually get the fish you're paying for. A lot of the fish are mislabeled due to a supply chain that's too difficult to be tracked.
We actually export our fish to asia. They package it and we import it back. Its apparently more expensive to process and package the fish here. Plus they eat way more fish in asia.
What i loved about Connecticut, we lived behind a restaurant and every morning the fish truck came with delivery and menu was always catch dependant, eating fishing that was swimming around less than 24 hours ago is just different
I was about to say most of the mom and pops shops around Massachusetts buy from the local fisher man so hearing that surprised me a little bit. But then again Boston has shit grocery stores like stop and shop,Target and Americas grocery
I live in Hawaii where everyone with a boat thinks they’re a commercial fishermen yet fresh fish still costs 5X as much as frozen imported. The fishermen don’t set the prices, the stores do. They know you want it and it’s like they’re saying how bad do you want it.
Most of the fish that I see at my grocery store is from Canada. Vegetables too. I live about 3 minutes from the border so that might just be the distributing company base, but it will say Canadian on it
Also, take advantage of the absolutely amazing fishing laws you have in the US. In the UK it's an absolute pain to fish for food. You need to go all the way out on the sea to take fish, as most inland waters will NOT let you take fish. You guys in the US can go fishing for food almost everywhere. Do it.
The other day we went fishing at a shipwreck that is 13 miles off of the coast. It only took us about 35 minutes to get there. And we were only in a 20 foot boat. Offshore fishing is not hard as long as you know how to navigate shallow inlets and catch bait.
@@CristiNeagu My boat costed $10,000, I pull it with a truck I paid $6,000 for, and I don’t pay anything to store it. I keep it in the backyard. You don’t have to be rich to go offshore fishing. That sounds like a you problem.
@@BidenCanSuckMyDTrump2024 $16,000 is a lot of money for most people. In 2022, the median savings for US families was $8000. This means that 50% of household had less than $8000 in savings. 28% of people have less than $1000 in savings. Getting together $16,000 for a boat is a big ask.
Hell they are even outsourcing the fishing industry all in the name of a higher profit margin and more bucks in their bank. This is an example of globalism gone wild.
I live right on the beach and within minutes my favorite fishing spots. I’ve always caught and prepared my own fish my entire life so when someone offers me something they bought frozen I can taste the difference in quality.
You are absolutely correct. Here in Canada we have the most salmon and trout in the entire world but every sushi shop only has imported salmon. Same in the grocery stores and all the trout is farmed. The people above only want us to consume non local products.
100% true. Spent some time in Northern Spain where all the fish is super fresh and most is local. It's completely different. Most of the fish in grocery stores in the US is literally disgusting.
As someone from Massachusetts please go into more detail as to where we can potentially find the best markets for fish, or even the best areas to go and cast a line ourselves?
yeah idk this depends on where your at. where i grew up in oregon on the coast everyplace that sold fresh seafood is caught off the coast by local fishermen. except for big box stores who get theirs frozen
Facts!!! Being an avid fisherman turned DIY baitmaker. Having fished freshwater also my whole life, when I was stationed in NC and had an opportunity to fish saltwater eating fresh caught fish, shrimp and crab was never the same for me ever again.
Most of the fish that come thru my doors, I caught myself. Speckeled Trout, Flounder, Redfish, Blue Catfish, and all the blue crabs I want here off the Gulf Coast of Texas ❤
Same happends in my country with vegetables. Our farmers here have to sell them to other countries because the state here are lowballing them. Then import vegetables from other countries cause its cheaper.. go to a local farm shop and buy your greens and stuff there
I live in Minnesota and a quarter of a farmed Atlantic Salmon fillet is 11.99$ at Hy-vee and is more expensive at target. So I just catch my own trout when I can and grill or bake it in the oven.
Greed is the root of all evil. We as consumers can change this by buying local and American seafood, meat, and other products. We should be purchasing made in 🇺🇸 as much as possible. If need be, pay a little more for better quality and supporting our neighbors’ businesses.
I'm for our commercial fishermen but regulations on imported seafood and commercial seafood should be upped (size and creel) and recreational should be lowered.
Also, I would presume environmentally it’s worse to buy foreign seafood verses domestic. More processing and travel means more carbon emissions. Also, it’s hard to regulate foreign fisheries and/or verify their supposed environmental responsibility. It’s much easier to regulate and verify minimum environmental harm with domestic businesses. I think the United States should more broadly invest in domestic businesses, even if it means initially high costs - it’s better for its people and better for our planet.
The reason the US has such great sport fishing is that it bans or limits commercial fishing. If groceries were full of American fish then the seas would be depleted here like they are in foreign countries. Look at the cod in the east coast or the salmon on the west coast.
Agree with all the points. I want to add that living in the landlocked midwest. All and I mean all of our rivers and lakes are toxic. The fish have growths, extra fins, bleed for no reason, strange odd things inside them. Have some toxic looking insides and have weird smells. If I find one that isn’t infested with worms and try to eat it. It has a strange texture and off putting taste. I have not been able to bring myself to eat any fish I have caught. I tried netting fish in the Mississippi river up north. Some nice fish and much cleaner normal looking compare to more south. But again, parasites and weird growths inside them. I was a commercial fisherman for a while selling the evasive carp. The broker sold all of it to be processed for either fertilizer or vitamins. I have seen nice clean fish that I was told came from the Mississippi River. But again, every one I’ve ever decided to gut and clean was too nasty for me. Maybe all fish are infested with worms and have growths and I’m just ignorant? But when I watch the sushi chefs on TH-cam cut up the fresh fish from market they don’t look anything like fish here for sure. I really don’t know if I can bring myself to eat these fish. Is a shame too. I love carp. You can take ocean gear to the river here SMS catch 100+ pound carp ALL day long. The little ones you see jumping at the shore are 50-70 pounds and they’re so abundant! You can’t throw a rock without hitting a couple of them. Wish I could eat them.
Also wild is that our own government allows those giant Chinese fishing vessels to vacuum up miles of fish right off our own shores, whilst simultaneously placing stringent limits on our own recreational and commercial fishermen. During the Obama admin, I saw those ships off the Florida Gulf coast while I was out deep sea fishing. Boat captain told me about the current agreement the Feds had with China on that one. Sure enough, I found AP articles on it at the time, but can't find sheeit on any of it now. Been quietly swept under the rug it would seem.
These are all facts! And yet it still excludes another HUGE point. “Farmed fish”. Fish farms are known for feeding fish almost Nothing that supplies them with the necessary vitamins to make them healthy for us to consume. If you look that up. Then look up “fish oil” vitamins. And how much the algae in vitamin form costs compared to those. When that’s where the fish are SUPPOSED to get it from anyway. I wish I could digress. But dmnt. When will we understand we need to be somewhat self sufficient again before we can start demanding anything. The 1% will forever have us cornered until we learn. And it’s getting worse every day.
It’s cheaper to catch a fish in Norway, then ship it to china to process and ship it back to Norway than it is to catch in Norway and process it in Norway
THANK you. As a chef I've been yelling about this problem till I'm blue in the face. But as somekne who is in OK: How can I buy from local fishermen? Yep, corporate greed is making the world a worse place yet again, with no gov't intervention yet again, because in the US, every elected official is a shill for one corp or another.
90% of the seafood I consume I catch myself. And whatever seafood we buy we get from the local seafood market, not the grocery store, to ensure that it’s caught in South Carolina.
You also have to understand all the farm raised fish which is what we get. A lot of wild caught fish is from the states it cost a little more. I never buy farm raised. India exports about 78% of the farm raised shrimp that is sold at a lot of our supermarkets. I buy gulf shore wild caught shrimp. Alaskan wild caught salmon.
Just because Americans have a ridiculously high COL doesn't meant that cost should be passed on to consumers. It's like saying to a guy making 40K/yr "Don't like your Camry? Buy a Benz"
Im so land-locked that I dont even eat fish if i dont catch it in a lake or river myself. The freshest a fish can be from the ocean around here is 16h by truck and the fish that come in like that are far too pricey and almost explisively direct orders for restaurants.
Do you use an app (fishing forecast) to best predict when to fish? Or do you just go at specific times? How long are your fresh water fishing trips? Do you go for like 1-2 hours or do you go 5+? I’m in school and working right now and I only have time to fish for like 1-2 hours and I want to have best chance of catching something. I have a couple of apps that give forecasts and I’m debating on getting the premium version to better my chances.
If you don't know a local fisherman who fishes for a living just pay your friend or neighbor who goes offshore fishing and fishes for a few fish and most of time he will gladly give you a few fish for free just cause he can't eat it all him self. I go offshore fishing and every trip I bring back 30-80 lbs of fillets not whole fish weight but fillets weight whole fish weigtwould be close to 100-110 lbs max of I have say 90 lbs of filets. I then give fresh filets to neighbors and this one family with three kids and mom and dad work two jobs each to support and raise them and give them a great life so I give them fish everyone I come back.
That's why it's so important to buy local! It's easy to preach it. Dont get me wrong, I got to big chains, too. However, I also go to my local meat market and produce stands, too! The quality difference is immeasurable.
I live in So California and they dumped 1 million barrels of DDT in between Catalina Island and San Clemente Island...destroyed our local fishery in perpetuity.
@@travistucker7317 the 1940s and 1950s, the ocean off the coast of Los Angeles, California was a legal dumping ground for DDT, a toxic pesticide produced by the Montrose Chemical
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You should explain how to buy from your local fishermen. Where to find, when to go, etc. for someone used to only shopping at the grocery store
You could have just typed that question into Google instead of sitting here being lazy and asking for someone else to do the work for you. Be glad this man has pointed you in the right way...don't ask him to carry you there either smh.
It’s a 60 second short, you can do all that by yourself with the help of google.
You jokers are annoying. This short is educational. The purpose of the guys channel is to educate people about fishing. He can give us another short on how to support our local fisherman, and us watching it will directly benefit him.
This person is also giving an opportunity for the creator to make more content. Are they lazy? Maybe but they’re also the target audience consuming the content.
Yea tylenol is absolutely correct. No matter how he may seem to you, the content creator now knows/has a direct suggestion from someone interested in the information provided.
Show me one, just ONE industry in this country that’s not broken because of corporate greed?
Facts
Thats called capitalism, not the greed of a select corporation or two.
@@ofsabir you are also wrong corporate greed is a problem with the people in charge not a problem with the system the problem also arises with the fact that we the consumers do not research companies and just mindlessly buy. capitalism is just a system in which people freely exchange goods and services which are called capital money is just a representation of capital. Greed is an unfortunate byproduct but that should not mean we just give up and throw out a system that has been developing in the field for millennia in exchange for a system developed by 2 bums at a desk who had no Idea about how things actually worked.
@@galladegamer6950hate to break it to ya but capitalism is also quite a modern concept, about 2-300 years old. There are many isolated systems that have led to many of our modern socialist and capitalist economic and political systems around the world. The reason capitalism is so widespread is because it is the US's chosen economic system, and because the US has been the dominant world power for so long it has been adopted by much of the world. It is not the culmination of world political history. Given that we can see it has many issues, it is our duty to improve if not change it all together, rather than just leaving it to rot and devolve even further
@@Josh-qd7lq name 1 non-tribal society that used socialism and did not devolve into a brutal dictatorship
I noticed that. A salmon caught straight out of Lake Michigan is a million times fresher than the salmon sold at a store
The steelhead trout is pretty good too.
I have half a trout left in the freezer from last summer.
Because it is not frozen. Wild.
@@liemh9290 no, it’s frozen. The salmon and trout I catch sometimes stay in the freezer for a year and it still tastes way better than store bought. You have to bleed them out and gut them before freezing
I had some tuna and swordfish gifted by a local fisherman here in NE and it was the best fish I ever ate (I don't eat a lot of fish, but if it always tasted as good as this I would eat more)
Yeah you jerks to see the salmon coming out of Lakes in Kansas. I'm land locked as f***. Not only that our Rivers a foot and a half deep.
lol, I am sure it isn't just United States, but the whole world itself. We have local vegetables, but when I went to grocer, they are imported from Australia, New Zealand, China, Africa and etc.
Vegetables there's a good reason for. Naturally most farm grown foods only produce in certain seasons, so in order for us to have year round vegetables and fruit they need to be imported from somewhere who's currently in that growing season when the US might currently not be. Otherwise food would only be available during certain months
Also, many fruits and vegetables ripen over time, so it becomes more viable to harvest early and let the produce ripen while shipping instead of trying to sell your ripe produce as quickly as possible.
I’m from the oldest fishing seaport America (Gloucester, MA)…. Our OWN GOVERNEMENT put our fleet out of business because they want to buy fish from foreign governments….
They’re probably lobbied by the owners of the companies who import fish. That’s usually how it is.
Gloucester is turning into a tourist trap and they treat us like dirt. We have to move all our lobster traps off of a *WARF* so people from CT and NY can look at our boats and take pictures.
But there are massive asian fishing vessels going around the planet over harvesting.
What was their excuse? Was it to reduce emissions or to protect the fish population?
No. Overfishing. And the science the Gov used to glean their data… is SUSPECT at best. I know. They used civilians to be “watchers and counters” on the boats…. The only problem being, NO SANE PERSON would stay on an off shore fishing vessel for weeks at a time…. So they resorted to hiring ANYONE to do the job…. Mostly drug addicts looking for free cash…. No joke.
Started buying gulf shrimp from a fish market. The things are monsterous, and the texture is nearly identical to lobster tail
My dad and I fish and sell it to the local bar
I hope you guys continue to do so for as long as possible! That's great to hear.
That’s great to hear bro. I really hope u keep doing that because it will slowly fix this issue
This is illegal in CA anyway unless you have a commercial license. Pretty sure that is country wide.
@@marktechsci resident commercial fisher license it’s pretty cheap for how much we sell. That sucks it’s illegal in your state.
@@marktechscianything beneficial to citizens is illegal in your communist state
The govt prices out the local fisherman. While foreign fishermen are allowed to fish U.S. waters at a discount. The difference is paid, again, by the citizens.
Ohhh the irony. One can only wonder what are these “foreign fisherman” being paid? Has got to be wayyy less to go to this trouble. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
@@Yourenotmetho Fish,,. fishermen are after fish.
@@arecane2000 the whole point of this video is export/import. I guess you pointed out something you didn’t intend to. 😴
Facts, the best Tuna I've ever had in my life was my PB 55lb Yellowfin Tuna I caught and ate 5 hrs later. Best fresh sushi I've ever had
I wish it were true, but buying fresh fish at the docks in San Diego is not cheaper. They match the prices of the local fish markets. Whatever they can’t sell at the docks ends up being sold to said fish markets at wholesale prices.
Exactly, local fisherman are Americans and thus charge appropriately for their labor. They have no incentive to sell their superior product for less than the store.
Where I live, they charge a premium bc it’s local. “Local” is now a marketing buzzword like, organic, free-range, grass-fed, hormone-free. Just how much do you want to pay for your protein?
The US is completely backwards on some of it's industries. We have some of the best waters and land and yet choose to import lesser quality because it's cheaper.
Thanks EPA!
When the US had commercial fishing they wiped out the local fishery. Look at Atlantic cod, Goliath groupers or sharks. The US has abundant fishes because commercial fishing is either banned or severely limited in favor of sport fishing or conservation.
Part of the responsibility lies with the consumer.@@joshuasands9440
@@rr-sp5iiHow'bout the Maine lobsta fisherie?
@savage22bolt32 lobster fishery is collapsing in Maine and New England. Population is down around 70%. Despite heavy regulations the population is not doing well under commercial fishing.
So where does all the American caught fish go then? It can’t all go to restaurants and private buyers that know fishermen
As a former charter and commercial fisherman, I approve this message. You can taste the difference 100%. Over 10 yrs of working on boats I became such a seafood snob, I won't even eat fish at a nice restaurant because it's not fresh. Catch of the day? I've supplied to restaurants and they serve it the 1 to 3 days later. Not saying every place is like this but the restaurant will always say it's "fresh"
Wait. So how can I find out who my local fishermen are?
go to the nearest boat dock - its ez to learn to fish just watch utube
@@bajadan2769Terrible advice. Some people do not live near boat docks
@@TysonDylan0or own boats.
U dnt need a boat Mostly boat searches for lazy people who don't want to put in any actual work and want to depend on their technology to do the fishing for them instead of learning the art.
Just go to your nearest fish market.
Politicians
Corporations and lobbyists
*See what the white mans done* lol
Agreed, myom buys from my local fishermen (Massachusetts)
I grew up in alaska, and the importing issue was so bad there was a whole movement dedicated to growing and selling local fruits and vegtables. They were way cheaper and higher quality than any imported stuff.
Even imported seafood is limited here in the midwest. No one is flying out to the coast and flying back with their catches to sell in middle America.
What's crazy is, I live on the beach in Florida and PEOPLE STILL will purchase from big chains...it's just ridiculous really.
@@LaurenJayx0that’s honestly crazy I hunt for most of my meat if I had better cleaner waters around me I’d definitely eat the fish but sadly I’d rather have cancer fish than sewage fish ☹️
Can’t get much in Kansas
That completely untrue. I know someone that does exactly that as a business. His company flies in shipments of all kinds of seafood from Alaska, Asia, and Mexico and sells to restaurants and nice grocery stores in the Midwest.
Totally false
Blame the politicians that put in restrictions so it’s harder for domestic and other locals to thrive and then also blame the FDA… 2 main problems right there
I agree. Democrats likes to put their foot on everyone's throats. Regulations after Regulations!
Or we could blame the lobbyists.
@@TheAxeaman manipulation attempt? Get America first representatives in there and you won't have to worry about lobbyists. Lobbyists don't pass bills or laws. I'm blaming those directly involved... lobbyists are down the list.
@@TheAxeamanand the corporations they work for.
Truth! I am a recreational fisherman. The taste is very noticeable and so is the quality. I’m pretty sure that it can also be a health hazard eatting old fish rather than fresh local fish. Also, great video… thank you so much for sharing.
Dont forget unfair practices and illegal, unregulated, unreported (IUU) fishing being quite common in some countries fishing fleets. Sometimes transshipment of fish at sea can also be problematic as illegally caught fish can be laundered with the clean ones.
I really appreciate you bringing attention to this issue. So many broken things, the struggle is real.
And for those of us that are in a landlocked state? I love Atlantic salmon, halibut, sockeye, and Mahi Mahi but can't catch that unless I drive about 600 miles
I live in a 3rd world country and yeah it's cheaper to buy that way than buying it on a local market when we ask why is it more expensive the truth is renting market place but they understand if we buy on the more cheaper side coz after those fish vendor sell all their product they also do buy on the cheapest one for their meal for the day we know it's not gonna be fresh but we need to be more practical 💯👍
I’m an attorney, but I’m a fisherman enthusiast and I do both fresh and salt water fishing. I don’t even buy fish from the grocery store, what I do is every other week I take a trip from Atlanta to Savannah and go out on intercostal waters near the Gulf Stream because you can find the best deep sea fish in warmer waters. Or I take a trip to Northern Georgia and fish near the Appalachians. Either way, I use fishing to get closer with my family especially how busy I am. My dad is a former Vietnam vet who taught me fishing at an early age, never forgot about getting tackle stuck in my Afro when I was a little boy in the late 70’s. Fishing also helped my dad and I get interested in weather, especially hurricanes. We passed our passion to my oldest daughter, and now she’s a meteorologist for NWS Charleston while working on getting hired by NHC since she specializes in hurricanes
and the fact that they over fish in spawning grounds make it doubly perverse. For an eye opener on the North Atlantic depletion of the fisheries read the book “Cod - a biography of a fish that changed the world” by Martin Kulansky
Well it’s also because most of the grocery store fish is farm raised. Which is significantly cheaper and sometimes less risky (parasites) than wild caught, and is why local fisherman often charge more.
Same situation in UK 😢
Well that and the government and aquariums are against our fishing industry in New England. Including lobstering which has practiced sustainability since the 1800’s.
Yeah I have seen videos of a lobster fisher who puts a notch in the tails of lobster and gives them snacks before throwing them back if they have eggs or are too big.
@galladegamer6950
Exactly. Thank the government and highschool kids in aquariums for destroying the only sustainable fishery in New England over 300 whales that are destined to go extinct (and it’s not because of lobstering)
Why is the American government doing that?
@TheAxeaman
They do shutdowns based on right whale sightings. A whale that is destined to go extinct due to being hunted in the 1800’s. And now all these wind farms they build could also be killing them, but they’re never the problem. just ask them.
@@Keith-jp6jw Why is the American government doing that?
Another thing about foreign fish is that you may not actually get the fish you're paying for. A lot of the fish are mislabeled due to a supply chain that's too difficult to be tracked.
We actually export our fish to asia. They package it and we import it back. Its apparently more expensive to process and package the fish here. Plus they eat way more fish in asia.
What i loved about Connecticut, we lived behind a restaurant and every morning the fish truck came with delivery and menu was always catch dependant, eating fishing that was swimming around less than 24 hours ago is just different
I was about to say most of the mom and pops shops around Massachusetts buy from the local fisher man so hearing that surprised me a little bit. But then again Boston has shit grocery stores like stop and shop,Target and Americas grocery
I live in Hawaii where everyone with a boat thinks they’re a commercial fishermen yet fresh fish still costs 5X as much as frozen imported. The fishermen don’t set the prices, the stores do. They know you want it and it’s like they’re saying how bad do you want it.
Something in Canada. Living on the west coast of Canada i can only get local seafood buying direct from the fishermen.
Most of the fish that I see at my grocery store is from Canada. Vegetables too. I live about 3 minutes from the border so that might just be the distributing company base, but it will say Canadian on it
Also, take advantage of the absolutely amazing fishing laws you have in the US. In the UK it's an absolute pain to fish for food. You need to go all the way out on the sea to take fish, as most inland waters will NOT let you take fish. You guys in the US can go fishing for food almost everywhere. Do it.
The other day we went fishing at a shipwreck that is 13 miles off of the coast. It only took us about 35 minutes to get there. And we were only in a 20 foot boat. Offshore fishing is not hard as long as you know how to navigate shallow inlets and catch bait.
@@BidenCanSuckMyDTrump2024... if you can afford a boat, a place to store it or a truck to pull it...
@@CristiNeagu My boat costed $10,000, I pull it with a truck I paid $6,000 for, and I don’t pay anything to store it. I keep it in the backyard. You don’t have to be rich to go offshore fishing. That sounds like a you problem.
@@BidenCanSuckMyDTrump2024 $16,000 is a lot of money for most people. In 2022, the median savings for US families was $8000. This means that 50% of household had less than $8000 in savings. 28% of people have less than $1000 in savings. Getting together $16,000 for a boat is a big ask.
Hell they are even outsourcing the fishing industry all in the name of a higher profit margin and more bucks in their bank. This is an example of globalism gone wild.
No it’s just capitalism.
@@TheAxeamanconsumerism
I live right on the beach and within minutes my favorite fishing spots. I’ve always caught and prepared my own fish my entire life so when someone offers me something they bought frozen I can taste the difference in quality.
You are absolutely correct. Here in Canada we have the most salmon and trout in the entire world but every sushi shop only has imported salmon. Same in the grocery stores and all the trout is farmed.
The people above only want us to consume non local products.
100% true. Spent some time in Northern Spain where all the fish is super fresh and most is local. It's completely different. Most of the fish in grocery stores in the US is literally disgusting.
As someone from Massachusetts please go into more detail as to where we can potentially find the best markets for fish, or even the best areas to go and cast a line ourselves?
Frozen fish is probably your best bet. As long as it's flash frozen, there's very little issue in terms of quality from shipping.
yeah idk this depends on where your at. where i grew up in oregon on the coast everyplace that sold fresh seafood is caught off the coast by local fishermen. except for big box stores who get theirs frozen
Facts!!! Being an avid fisherman turned DIY baitmaker. Having fished freshwater also my whole life, when I was stationed in NC and had an opportunity to fish saltwater eating fresh caught fish, shrimp and crab was never the same for me ever again.
Most of the fish that come thru my doors, I caught myself. Speckeled Trout, Flounder, Redfish, Blue Catfish, and all the blue crabs I want here off the Gulf Coast of Texas ❤
My freezer is always full of fish I catch. Mahi, blackfin tuna, seatrout, redfish, cobia etc..
Same happends in my country with vegetables. Our farmers here have to sell them to other countries because the state here are lowballing them. Then import vegetables from other countries cause its cheaper.. go to a local farm shop and buy your greens and stuff there
I live in Minnesota and a quarter of a farmed Atlantic Salmon fillet is 11.99$ at Hy-vee and is more expensive at target. So I just catch my own trout when I can and grill or bake it in the oven.
If someone really can be fair and careful with local suppliers, life would be so much better at local. Money and food safety.
As someone who has been commercial fishing for 17yrs. I agree with this video.
Heyy ya that’s so true , on Vancouver island most of the fish at the grocery stores is from out of country ! WHY!!!
Greed is the root of all evil. We as consumers can change this by buying local and American seafood, meat, and other products. We should be purchasing made in 🇺🇸 as much as possible. If need be, pay a little more for better quality and supporting our neighbors’ businesses.
As someone born straight in cape cod. I say either catch your own. Or go to a local family owned store for fish
I'm for our commercial fishermen but regulations on imported seafood and commercial seafood should be upped (size and creel) and recreational should be lowered.
In most cases, it's illegal to sell fish unless you're a commercial fisherman. Commercial fishing is illegal in a lot of states.
No it’s not
Also, I would presume environmentally it’s worse to buy foreign seafood verses domestic. More processing and travel means more carbon emissions. Also, it’s hard to regulate foreign fisheries and/or verify their supposed environmental responsibility. It’s much easier to regulate and verify minimum environmental harm with domestic businesses.
I think the United States should more broadly invest in domestic businesses, even if it means initially high costs - it’s better for its people and better for our planet.
The reason the US has such great sport fishing is that it bans or limits commercial fishing. If groceries were full of American fish then the seas would be depleted here like they are in foreign countries. Look at the cod in the east coast or the salmon on the west coast.
Of course, why didn’t I think of making a 223 mile weekly drive to my local fisherman!
Agree with all the points.
I want to add that living in the landlocked midwest. All and I mean all of our rivers and lakes are toxic.
The fish have growths, extra fins, bleed for no reason, strange odd things inside them. Have some toxic looking insides and have weird smells.
If I find one that isn’t infested with worms and try to eat it. It has a strange texture and off putting taste.
I have not been able to bring myself to eat any fish I have caught.
I tried netting fish in the Mississippi river up north.
Some nice fish and much cleaner normal looking compare to more south.
But again, parasites and weird growths inside them.
I was a commercial fisherman for a while selling the evasive carp.
The broker sold all of it to be processed for either fertilizer or vitamins.
I have seen nice clean fish that I was told came from the Mississippi River. But again, every one I’ve ever decided to gut and clean was too nasty for me.
Maybe all fish are infested with worms and have growths and I’m just ignorant?
But when I watch the sushi chefs on TH-cam cut up the fresh fish from market they don’t look anything like fish here for sure.
I really don’t know if I can bring myself to eat these fish. Is a shame too.
I love carp. You can take ocean gear to the river here SMS catch 100+ pound carp ALL day long.
The little ones you see jumping at the shore are 50-70 pounds and they’re so abundant!
You can’t throw a rock without hitting a couple of them.
Wish I could eat them.
Idk man, we basically only get local fish here in florida. majority of fish in grocery stores for sale like at publix are locally caught
This is a good point. Also we ship our fish to other countries. It makes no sense
Also wild is that our own government allows those giant Chinese fishing vessels to vacuum up miles of fish right off our own shores, whilst simultaneously placing stringent limits on our own recreational and commercial fishermen. During the Obama admin, I saw those ships off the Florida Gulf coast while I was out deep sea fishing. Boat captain told me about the current agreement the Feds had with China on that one. Sure enough, I found AP articles on it at the time, but can't find sheeit on any of it now. Been quietly swept under the rug it would seem.
These are all facts! And yet it still excludes another HUGE point. “Farmed fish”. Fish farms are known for feeding fish almost Nothing that supplies them with the necessary vitamins to make them healthy for us to consume.
If you look that up. Then look up “fish oil” vitamins. And how much the algae in vitamin form costs compared to those. When that’s where the fish are SUPPOSED to get it from anyway. I wish I could digress. But dmnt. When will we understand we need to be somewhat self sufficient again before we can start demanding anything. The 1% will forever have us cornered until we learn. And it’s getting worse every day.
It’s cheaper to catch a fish in Norway, then ship it to china to process and ship it back to Norway than it is to catch in Norway and process it in Norway
I get my seafood at a local fish market that gets fresh seafood directly from Alaska. The flavor is amazing.
How far away from Alaska are you?
There is so much fishing restrictions in the States
THANK you. As a chef I've been yelling about this problem till I'm blue in the face. But as somekne who is in OK: How can I buy from local fishermen?
Yep, corporate greed is making the world a worse place yet again, with no gov't intervention yet again, because in the US, every elected official is a shill for one corp or another.
Same thing in canada. Over here you need a commercial fiahing license to be able to sell fish.
This holds true with all meats, hell with all foods... Oh hell even with most manufactured goods.
90% of the seafood I consume I catch myself. And whatever seafood we buy we get from the local seafood market, not the grocery store, to ensure that it’s caught in South Carolina.
i can confidently say due to my extensive experience in deep sea catch and cooks the only fish i’ve eaten have come locally from our waters💪🏼
You also have to understand all the farm raised fish which is what we get. A lot of wild caught fish is from the states it cost a little more. I never buy farm raised. India exports about 78% of the farm raised shrimp that is sold at a lot of our supermarkets. I buy gulf shore wild caught shrimp. Alaskan wild caught salmon.
Support your fishermen/women. Fresh fish is so delicious and very good for you. Buy local, buy fresh, and support your community.
With the economy yeah its time to go directly to your local tradesmen and hunters and farmers instead of relying on grocery stores.
I'm a comical fisherman from RI. Everything he is saying is facts thanks man for letting the people know
I would love to, but I live in Tucson Az.
Just because Americans have a ridiculously high COL doesn't meant that cost should be passed on to consumers. It's like saying to a guy making 40K/yr "Don't like your Camry? Buy a Benz"
I live an hour from the ocean, and I don't have a local fish monger. This drives me insane. All the fish on my coast goes to Japan
Im so land-locked that I dont even eat fish if i dont catch it in a lake or river myself. The freshest a fish can be from the ocean around here is 16h by truck and the fish that come in like that are far too pricey and almost explisively direct orders for restaurants.
I work at a park with a river and Corpus Christi’s 2 hours away, I have no excuse.
“And sure enough “
Do you use an app (fishing forecast) to best predict when to fish? Or do you just go at specific times? How long are your fresh water fishing trips? Do you go for like 1-2 hours or do you go 5+? I’m in school and working right now and I only have time to fish for like 1-2 hours and I want to have best chance of catching something. I have a couple of apps that give forecasts and I’m debating on getting the premium version to better my chances.
A Queen once said, "Let them eat farm raised fish".
And they have such a monopoly on everything that demand you have a fishing license so it looks like people might have to stop eating fish soon.
There are PLENTY of local fresh caught food distributors in Massachusetts. You just need to find you location. Same goes for butchered meats.
My aunt went on an all seafood diet and got mercury poison and she was rich and bought the best foods
Support locals is the way to change the big chains
I used to think I hated fish until I tried one that was caught that day
Damn I’m early love your videos
I buy sea scallops and lobster directly from the the ones catching it. Same with tuna and swordfish. I catch the rest myself.
Very compelling argument. What do you recommend for someone who lives in Kansas City? I don’t like catfish, so who are my local fisherman?
If you don't know a local fisherman who fishes for a living just pay your friend or neighbor who goes offshore fishing and fishes for a few fish and most of time he will gladly give you a few fish for free just cause he can't eat it all him self. I go offshore fishing and every trip I bring back 30-80 lbs of fillets not whole fish weight but fillets weight whole fish weigtwould be close to 100-110 lbs max of I have say 90 lbs of filets. I then give fresh filets to neighbors and this one family with three kids and mom and dad work two jobs each to support and raise them and give them a great life so I give them fish everyone I come back.
That's why it's so important to buy local! It's easy to preach it. Dont get me wrong, I got to big chains, too. However, I also go to my local meat market and produce stands, too! The quality difference is immeasurable.
My local fisherman? I can walk 1000 kilometers in any direction without hitting a body of water I couldn't cross with a row boat.
I live in So California and they dumped 1 million barrels of DDT in between Catalina Island and San Clemente Island...destroyed our local fishery in perpetuity.
When was that?
@@travistucker7317 the 1940s and 1950s, the ocean off the coast of Los Angeles, California was a legal dumping ground for DDT, a toxic pesticide produced by the Montrose Chemical
It also supports Chinese overfishing fleets in the galapagos.
I want 100% boneless fish, that's my dream 😭👌.
Shark. Congrats.
If you live far from the sea, lake fish taste great too
I always support buying locally for any type of food but, this video is a little brief to make its point.