Local fisherman here, im not too confident that our waterways can supply commercial levels of food without taking a toll on our fisheries. Id love to sell my fish and make some side money but id rather be able to tell my kids about the lengths we went to, to restore the populations which dwindled from years of overfishing. Farmed fish may or may not be unhealthy but i see a bigger need for investigation into the health and ethical farming techniques they use so that we can trust the imported fisheries and local offshore and inshore fishfarms. I just want to see more fish i remember my grandparents stories of coolers full of flounder and trout every year
That’s the tradeoff you get with choosing locally sourced food. No mass production. Even our meat and poultry comes from overseas industrial farms. But if we chose only American family owned farm raised animals, there would be no mass production. But a lack of mass produced goods would help with our obesity issues. There’s a lot of factors to consider. Personally I think we should ditch mass production. The corporations aren’t gonna like that though 😂😂
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.
@bdub8442 sounds like corporate greed COPE to me. And to the folks saying getting our fish local will kill the sport fishing for rich white dudes on their mini fishing yachts. Yeah, killed two birds with one stone on that last comment. Nobody is going to shead a tear for you. Because you only care about you. Community need > Your need for stuffed marlin on your basement bar wall.
Which, again, can be done better by supporting local fishermen, who are bound by our stronger US regulations than overseas fishermen who often do not have such restrictions. I may be wrong but I think that actually may be one of the main reasons so much fish is imported, because they catch it at unsustainable rates and sell it at large volumes and low price, which is exactly what all the middlemen want, low prices at the source so they can jack up the price along the way for no reason. Buy local
Exactly what I was thinking, if local fishermen can satisfy the demand of the US population why the hell would companies risk longer supply chain that are more susceptible to disruptions, shrinkage, less visibility, less control, and the list goes on. My guess is there are caveats like I might want a type of fish but the population locally is depleted and need time to recover, also sadly regulations of populations are looser abroad so that's another caveat. Truthfully the solution in my humble opinion is to adjust our demands for seafood, and be more flexible, if we demand less in alignment with sustainable supply locallý and are more flexible in our choice of seafood based on availability locally, retailers would have zero reasons to source their fishes from abroad. There's no conspiracy, just economics.
He's not wrong though. Imported fish is preserved and changes so many hands in the supply chain so you're paying for that cost. As opposed to local fisherman who go through the labor and marketing themselves, AND it's fresher.
I can tell you I’ve harvested trout here in the rockies and the meat was more red and the flavor far more complex than any salmon I’ve had at any Montage resort or high end restaurant. The fish was bled within 10 minutes of landing and was on the grill in less than 30. Lactic acid builds up in the blood of fish and can greatly impact the meat quality.
@@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.
@@galladegamer6950There isn’t any. Vietnam, Venezuela, North Korea, China, Laos, Russia, and Cuba are all modern day socialist countries and they all have dictatorships. And let’s not forget about history. The USSR and Nazi Germany may not exist anymore, but they were still two of the biggest socialist dictatorships to ever exist. Millions of people have died and people still continue to die because of socialism. I’ll take capitalism any day. It may have its flaws but at least people aren’t being murdered because of it.
@@galladegamer6950 all of known examples have died-out due to foreign intervention(infamous CIA-backed coups, extinguished anarchist rebellions, countries like Cuba which were forced to align with the USSR due to hostilities from the US' side. The closest thing to socialism we have is European left-leaning democracies. But it is not like only Socialism tends to result in a dictatorship, there are many examples of right-wing dictatorships which have exploited the democratic order(Latin American military dictatorships, restored monarchies, Italian and German fascist dictatorships - just to name a few).
Just one problem: Where are all those "local fisherman"? I've lived in Southern California for my entire 61 years and have never seen them, at least not with the volumes feasible to supply Southern California. I see guys at street fair booths with a couple ice chests whose fish is like 10x more expensive than the grocery store.
That's where you would go. You pretty much have to goto the docks in the morning and buy fish as they're coming off the boat. You'll mostly be competing with commercial restaurants who have enough time to spend buying product. TL;DR-Just buy farmed frozen fish. It's harvested and frozen right away. Even the "fresh" fish in the grocery story is frozen and then thawed for sale. Just buy it frozen from the start. And stop listening to bougie influencers who try to convince you to spend all your free time chasing after some unrealistic ideal. It's especially funny here because living in Cape Cod, you know he probably pushed the policies that made the local seafood impossible to get in the first place. XD
Most local fishermen don’t sell at the farmers market, they sell directly to seafood restaurants and small business diners. Santa Monica Pier has a famous small business seafood locale right on the pier, delicious local seafood.
Imagine implying 95% of the US population lives in flyover states with such a straight face lmao The vast majority of people live at least a few hours from a notable body of water, it’s not that hard
@echo0957 Well, thats you and everyone you know. I'd imagine a lot of places in this country dont have places where you can buy fish that isnt from a big grocer, since a lot of newer subdivisions really only have chain stores or places that import them anyways.
@ChiquitaSpeaks I was in Sacramento at the time going to a place called sun fish market but I just moved to florida 2 weeks ago and now I have to find somewhere else
@mchonkler7225 sheesh. If you were to order them (even the ones I got were prev frozen) the ones they have on "markethouse" or "all fresh seafood" They look about the same as what I was getting, not too crazy on price either. You'll probably get it with dry ice. AFS looks has slightly better looking shrimp, but the key is wild caught, gulf shrimp shell-on.
Lived in the Bayou State for a decade and their gulf shrimp are rocking. The gulf oysters are also huge juicy and very tasty! When the T.G.I.F. first opened in the late 70s in Shreveport during "happy hour" they offered fresh shucked oysters free as long as you were drinking their $1 draft beer! That's back when the Red River front was full of bars(several larger ones offered popular bands and others dancing) and great restaurants. Now sadly it's all casinos......glad I was there to see and enjoy the good old days!
@@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)
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?
right on...thanks for pointing. that out and aquaculture is massive farming of fish in pens. I don't know what is the big deal about supplying affordable protein to Americans from these asian farms and norway instead of depleting our oceans.
FR! Try getting fresh fish in the Rockies... it ain't happening unless you know someone who recreation fishes. Even if a recreation fisher did catch it, it's illegal to sell it to the public then!
If you pay attention, it's because he's making the opposite argument. Despite having ready access to local fish, his own grocery stores still choose to import them.
@@TwilitbeingReboot that's because supermarkets aren't willing to pay the local fisherman enough for their fish to be worth their time, importing fish in bulk is cheaper, and the only way that math is going to change is if we just tear up US fishing regulations and labor laws (not going to happen). Also at the end of the video he says to buy directly from local fisherman, which is only an option for him because he lives right next to Cape Cod lol
@@Michael-uc2pnTbf for your first paragraph points he did talk about that. Tho yeah I agree he did drop the ball given your second point. If there was a follow-up about how to access local fisherman even in landlocked places then the point would go together well.
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.
If you're referring to the US, the US has a whole lotta shoreline. It's one of the most sparsely-populated large nations; there might be 330 million people in the US, but they live across 3.8 million square miles. There's 100,000 miles of coastline. That's more coastline than China or India boasts, supporting a smaller population than China or India. Just for some perspective.
Keep in mind one of the reasons for this is because foreign countries have more lax or no regulations on safety or quality of fish, and overfishing. We can only get so much fish out of bodies of water without killing them all. Guess what? We eat too much. The ONLY way to meet that demand is buying foreign fish. Fish used to be so common it was often considered a staple food source in the US. Now, we just can't support the population with our fish like that. So that's a big reason why local fish is so much more expensive, because there are limits on how many fish can be caught so that there will be any fish left to catch tomorrow.
Sometimes fishermen go out to fish and don’t haul enough to recover the fuel cost. They truely have it tough but everyone thinks fishermen just throw a net pull it to port and easy money
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.
Also, fresh (local caught) Poke, ahi, is so expensive (over $20/lb) at most supermarkets with a poke counter. The "Prev frozen" kind is cheaper. Also, we don't have many of the fish that the people in the mainland can fish freshly. I like my Alaskan salmon. There's also the fact that every time fish farming is bought up over here it gets shot down by activists. Both aquarium fish (obviously) and food supply fish (I understand, but that's still better than sending out a boat that can leak fuel and/or oil).
@PinkAgaricus there are several reasons for this. Fresh yellowfin is some of the best fish I've ever had, but you can only consume so much of the fish before you have to preserve it or let it rot. With the tuna I caught (about 120lbs worth), I got to eat about 8lbs before having to freeze the rest. It's still good frozen, but typically it's sold as sushi grade tuna at that point (never frozen ahi can have parasites, so it's not legal to sell it as sushi/sashimi).
@@PinkAgaricus Fish farms produce poor quality fish and pollute the water. It’s no different than how agricultural farms pollute the land with chemicals.
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.
@@thestoebz There is not a single climate on earth that supports any and every fruit and vegetable you could possibly want, least of all year round. The reality of the situation is that fruit and vegetables are necessarily imported because I'm not growing a tomato in December, though an Australian could. On top of that, it's been proven that a statistically significant amount of farmers market produce is just crap bought from Wally World and resold at a markup instead of actual local produce.
This is kind of silly. If American seafood is cheaper and better quality, you wouldn’t need to be here telling people to buy it. That’s literally how markets work. Something ain’t mathing here
That’s how well-functioning markets work. Markets can be distorted by unfair regulation, yielding a set of incentives that make a worse consumer outcome the most logical for the system, with the biggest beneficiary being the corporate entity that lobbied for the regulatory change.
@@midnightfuture I agree that regulation can distort markets, but those distortions manifest themselves through higher prices. But the video is claiming that the price is lower on American seafood. If American seafood truly is lower priced and higher quality, again, he wouldn't need to be asking people to buy it. The reality must be that American seafood is higher priced, or lower quality, or both
@@panzermk8it's because large fisheries can set the price of fish. If there's a large fishery and a smaller local fishery in the same area, the larger fishery can set an insanely low price for a limited period that the smaller fishery can't hope to match, causing them to close. Once the larger fishery has eliminated competition they can set the price higher. This is how large corporations have been pushing out smaller corporations for decades.
the issue isn't quality. the issue is price. "locally sourced" just means they can slap any price they want on it for the "quality" and "ethics" of it. People buy fish from grocery stores cause the cost is lower ( and convenience, they dont have to go anywhere out of the way) . I occasionally go to markets with local farmers and fishers, i end up leaving having spent more than i would at a grocery store. sure the stuff tastes better, but to most people, the additional cost isn't worth it.
Unless you break the math, it's just a rant you're offering here You've said the fish changes multiple hands but even then it's cheaper than your first hand fish.
The prices are around the same. In some places local is a little cheaper while in others it's a little pricier. But regardless, I think the main argument of this clip is that local fish makes for higher quality food and that it helps the local economy better than buying imported.
In theory that could be true. But I think in reality the grocery store frozen fish is fish that they tried to sell fresh but couldn't get rid of, because it is already stink as soon as you defrost it.
Grocery stores get all their fish frozen. The frozen fish was never thawed, it's been frozen since they caught it. The fresh fish at the grocery store is actually just thawed fish.
Minnesota, I did not realize this but all fish here is frozen. I always thought the stuff in the grocery store was fresh but its thawed from frozen. Same with restaurants. Same with sushi. I know this bc I went to Florida and Maine and actually had fresh fish. You really can tell the difference. Fresh fish is almost jello like. Frozen is much more firm after coked.
@@SmashhoofTheOriginal Any time you can get your fish frozen, ergo near the ocean it's like that TBF. I was talking more inland where frozen is the better option, and more likely to be flash frozen for shipping.
Local fisherman aren’t always certified vendors for fish. At least if you get sick from eating fish that comes from an approved vendor you’re not liable. If you get sick from local fish that’s on you.
I live in Louisiana. We have a law that restaurants must state they are using imported seafood if they are using imported seafood and not local seafood. Crawfish is something we love down here and we make a lot of seafood dishes and appetizers from them. There are two kinds you can buy at the grocery store: the cheap and the expensive one. The local one is expensive, at 18 bucks for a pounds worth. The cheap one is only half the price. Here's the crazy thing though: for the cheap one, they ship the crawfish caught here, to another country, to be peeled and sent back here.
I work at the airfreight and that's exactly how it's done and what we deal with on a weekly basis. Shripms are caught, send by airfreight to other ountries, get there peeled and cleaned just to be flown back - and this is cheaper than use local workers do it ... ridicilous, but we have all jobs because the sistem works like that
There's no way crawfish peelers get 9 or 10 dollars a pound so it shouldn't be cheaper to process it abroad. There has to be a tax or subsidy to incentivize going abroad bc the shipping is not cheap
@gujwdhufjijjpo9740 so they would rather us be dependent on a region of the world that isn't exactly the most friendly to the West just because it's cheaper? Wow money really does ruin everything.
@@michaelmhee Pizza shop owner here. Sardines is one of the more rare toppings on pizza, but some people like them. We keep a couple tins on hand for the occasional person who wants them.
His example of being landlocked is living an HOUR from Cape Cod. What about those of us who love 15 hours from such places? Who is our local fisherman?
He was showing how he ISNT landlocked and its still expensive. if your 15 hrs away from fishing waters you dont have local fisherman and fish probably isnt a huge part of your local diet or culture, so grocery store is the best you can get n you just sorta have to deal with it
This commercial only offers a derogatory complaint. No solution. There is absolutely no local fisherman in the high desert. Ignore this fool that made this ad.
“Buying fish from local fishermen is too expensive” “What can I do about it?” “Buy fish from local fishermen” If it’s too expensive for corporations to pay local fishermen, what makes it cheap for me?
If you buy the fish directly from the local fisherman, you aren't paying the 30% markup that the grocery store charges so that they make a profit. I can't guarantee that it will be cheaper to buy from your local fisherman than the store bought foreign stuff, but you ARE getting a better price than the store could EVER give you for seafood that is actually fresh and tastes MUCH better
As a farmer i understand your point. Consumers, though, will always show their real voice with their wallet. They buy at the grocery store as its typically cheaper than from me, and other farmers at the market. Biggest reason? Many food, like asparagus, are grown in Peru which have no labor laws, they also grow monoculture and use alot of synthetic pesticides, and coat the foods in wax as part of processing, to create the longest shelf life. Natural foods normally only last about 2 weeks tops after picking, seeing food sit forever in stores, especially after coming from far away. I understand, trying to grt the food for cheapest is appealing, and for many its all you can afford, but unfortunately theres a "you get what you pay for" when it comes to this.
Yep, and even farmers shop at Walmart. In fact, they were the among the earliest customers of Walmart before Sam Walton started building stores in urban areas. And contrary to popular belief, Sam imported many products from China way back then even while promoting American-made. He was actually a pioneer in sourcing Chinese-made goods, which eventually made it easier for others to follow in his footsteps. Funny how over the decades there’s been so much focus on American farm relief, yet they contributed to the downfall of American manufacturing by enriching Sam Walton so he could expand his business.
@LuckyCharms777 thats true, but also dont discount the shift in the workforce. In 1900, according to us dept of labor census, alost 40% of the population was in agriculture (this includes ranchers, and fisherman). Fast forward to 2024 it's less than 2%. The population of the country has since expanded alot since the. More pressure to produce meat, feuit, and veggies to be done by fewer and fewer people. Add free enterprise and you have a system that makes ot increasingly difficult to farm, and make any money. Hence why more go out, larger ones buy whats left, then you have people like bill Gates buying up substantial amounts. You have a very unhealthy system that really makes everyone suffer. The best way to fight it is by buying from the local farm market, or buying land to become more self sufficient.
@lesliemcmillan2971 or do what Angela Merkel did and tariff imports to match domestic prices. Unfair competition was created by free enterprise and enforced by consumers looking for what's the cheapest, not the healthiest, where it's from, or geopolitics. Not every country gets to choose to not pay it's workers which has a huge impact on prices. Knowledge is also the only other thing, I can tell you what's on those store foods, and if consumers still buy and eat, then they agree to consume the additives along with it. I can't get prices lower as I don't make much profit by the end of the season. Us farmers don't see profit until most of the season worth of selling is over.
It’s not greed, its economics. we mass import fish because other countries have bigger ships and infrastructure/plants that reduce the overall cost of getting a fish to you. a local fisherman would spend on gas, insurance on the boat and the time to catch a fish all accounted for on said fish. while another is caught in a huge net and just floped onto you for a fraction of what the local fisherman is charging.
thats not even counting for cost of licensing and sales, its cheaper for bigger fishing corporations as a whole. The fish in stores wouldnt be there if it wasnt efficient and economic. sure the local fish would be more flavorful, but do you want to wait hours and pay a little more when the convenience of having said same fish on ice at a store?
Very true! It’s always crazy to me that people can even pretend that glaring market inefficiencies can exist and no corporation in the supply chain cares to take advantage of it. I mean, dont you think the grocery stores all over the coast would love to buy cheaper, better quality fish from local suppliers and be able to undercut everyone else? They would be all over it if that was true.
Also they talk like local fishermen could just supply a whole nation by themselves. That's like the most basic reason why countries import and export goods.
As someone whose father was a merchant mariner, I disagree. Americans have massive fishing boats too. It’s just that American merchant sailors are unionized and require higher wages than foreign fishermen.
The problem is that I live a mile from the beach near St Petersburg Florida where the fishing boats come in at, and the local fish mongers prices are way more than the supermarkets. I'd love to be able to support local fisherman, but they have to lower their prices
Im not sure why people think buying local should be cheaper. Your local fisherman probably expects at least $30 an hour for his efforts. A boat off the cost of Asia will pay workers $30 a month.
@thebookwasbetter3650 yeah it's weird because I'm originally from Houston and Galveston is 45 minutes south, but they bring in fresh seafood daily to Houston and you can find local independent seafood shops for cheaper than the supermarkets. Something about Florida fisherman makes them think they deserved to be paid more than Houston, which in Houston they have to transport the seafood a lot further than here right on the beach in st Petersburg. But don't get me started about Florida. That's just one thing I can't stand about Florida
@@FishRfunYep. Unfortunately for the fisherman perhaps, the market does not factor in the fisherman's effort alone. There's always the customer and there's always price.
Why should they. They aren't being paid in foreign currencies that value more than theirs, they should be rightfully compensated for their work. This goes for the foreign fishers too, this isn't about cost it's about doing what's right.
@@haihuynh8772 you're right they have every right to charge twice what the grocery stores charge, but they shouldn't sit there wondering why they can't make a living doing it. Perhaps they should find a different field of employment if they can't compete
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've tried and they always charge exorbitant prices. I'll either just catch it myself or go to the grocery store. If I'm cooking it, it doesnt have to be the freshest.
Most people wouldn't know where to go to buy from local fishermen, said fishermen would struggle to meet the kind of demand a supermarket meets, and the prices they set would be influenced by market prices anyway, which means they don't end up being significantly cheaper and may even be pricier than at the store. With the amount of effort needed to buy from a local fisherman without much difference in price, most people will just do the easy thing and go to a supermarket.
@@elianes5505 I know , but remember they blame it on immigrants for getting paid less. ,while the rest in here want to get paid over $20 an hour , so of course it's the whole corruption of the system. He wants to live and make profit so he can go to nice restaurants and buy a better car and fix his house , I get it but a low income person ( most of the usa are barely over the poverty line ) can't afford that that's why he can't eat fish on a regular basis!
@@elianes5505 Exactly, the landlord wants x10 the price for renting, the school wants x100 the price of a normal college in asia, the hospital wants x50 the cost of insulin... And we can keep going, as long as basic services don't go down, the fisherman (n any local businessman) can't lower their prices.
@@elianes5505 Nothing to do with capitalism. Literally the case in every rich country mate. Which is why companies import stuff because poorer countries tend to have cheap labour. And in this regards its mainly the US being lazy for centuries not properly utilizing their fishing capabilities and rather go with the easier solution (import from dirt poor countries. Also they don't have to care about workers conditions overseas)
@@Surtr174 The reason the local fisherman has to increase the price of his fish is because the local cost of labor is higher than in less developed countries. The cost of labor is almost entirely dependent on the capitalists and the logic of the market. Explain to me then, how it "has nothing to do with capitalism".
@@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.
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.
Eyy trueee! I worked at a fishfactory in the Faroe Islands and every sunday we sliced the Salmon from our fish farmes into fine filletts to be shipped to the US. Now slicing them costs extra then sending them whole, but the sushi industry on the east coast of the US liked em that way so there you go. But it makes you wonder how much extra money was put into that than getting salmon locally, or even from Canada
This is because most countries are overfishing even for their local stores. I live in a country where theres open markets everywhere with fresh fish. The cost is the water is poorly oygenated and the fish all around are suffering. Also the populations are many times a year depopulated. So the prices are constantly fluctuating and its overall stressful to everyone to deal with all the strong fluctuations.
I don't see why this is a surprise - the cost of living in the US is VASTLY higher than most (if not almost all) countries in the world. A Malaysian tilapia farmer's time is way cheaper than his counterpart in South Carolina, just like a migrant worker from Mexico will pick strawberries for cheaper than literally anyone with a permanent residence in SoCal. I don't care if you were born in the most dilapidated trailer in the park; if you're an American you're instantly the rich kid in the global neighborhood.
We export almost all of the fish we harvest in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska to Japan and the rest of Asia. I am an Alaskan fisherman and I've seen it firsthand for years. Even some packaging on factory vessels is written in only Japanese and Mandarin.
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.
Necessity > Sport I could care less about SPORT FISHING as it's just a hobby. We care about paying American fishermen a living wage not stock holders' margins.
@@jpscharged i think you're missing the point here, sport fishing doesnt damage the fish population as much as commercial fishing. Overfishing is a very severe problem and the American fishermen won't even have a living wage if the fish resources is depleted.
The argument that foreign fish is worse *and* more expensive makes no sense. The market regulates prices to an extend where there has to be a monetary sense in importing. If local fishermen can afford to offer the cheapest fish, no outside company would be able to compete. There must be other issues at hand which are not talked about here.
quality and transportation issue. Anything moved that much losses freshness is the point. You also have to understand the cost of living difference. An asian country can survive off what they sell it to our companies for. A fisherman in america might need $10 a fish where a fisherman in asian will take $0.50
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 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.
Im Australian, tho from my oversights I find it either absurd or amazing that you can grow fruits in such cold climate, was it done in greenhouses or just outside?
Same with pretty much every market clothing,food,textile, etc all overseas due to dirt cheap labor and sweatshops all why we need tariffs to encourage made in the USA.
Then prepare to pay 10 times the price? Anyone who has visited countries with the so called sweat shops know people globally are harder working for less pay. Go to any fast food restaurant in U.S. and you see laziness written on their forehead
As someone who's the most landlocked possible (we have a surprisingly high amount of saltwater fish here though? Good supply line I guess) I'm curious how I can do this. I can't necessarily buy from my LOCAL fishermen but I wonder if I can find affordable stuff from fishermen on the coasts that are at least US local? I have a really well rated fish market that opened near me about a year ago but still haven't visited, so I'll have to see where they get their fish from since it seems like good quality.
Here in France, at least when close to the coast, you’ll find fisheries close-by to our fishing ports (and even away from them) and their fish is delicious. Sometimes you can even place orders directly with some fishing boats for various crustaceans. Only issue is that our fishermen have to follow french laws for sea conservation, but the english (and maybe other nations too, can’t remember too well, so take it with a grain of salt) have fewer qualms in fishing during those times (and sometimes even close or IN our seas) which angers our fishermen (who wonder why they can’t fish too… but if there are no fish in the sea it will be hard to fish later on, won’t it).
I’m sorry, no, it’s just that Americans are not raised with that flavor and for many people fish is just something they don’t care about. Many nationalities that immigrated to America were not big fish eaters. But even for those who used to eat fish in their land of origin, America simply had too many other easier protein sources. So over time, fish eating culture never developed. As much as I like blaming corporate greed for everything, in this case they are other much more influential factors to consider.
Fisherman don't care whether you can afford it. They only care about their bottom line. If that's the case then I don't care if they go out of business.
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"
This is because the US is very sparing with commercial fishing licenses and in enforcing them. As a result we have some of the healthiest fish stocks on Earth. China fishes the majority of the worlds seafood and have destroyed their local ecosystems, which is why they are exploiting other nations’ waters.
That's not how supply chains work they pay other countries to import it so they don't have to pay the Americans that get 20/30$ an hour instead they pay a Chinese person 5$ and it makes it cheaper for the consumer at the grocery store if they had to pay more for imports like he's saying in his video they would use domestic fish because they could charge more and make a larger profit
Alaska is a biiit less hit by this because the salmon fisheries here are world-class and support a decent chunk of commercial fishing (though it varies with the salmon runs). We are blessed that if we want to get Alaskan Salmon, we can just take a day trip to a place open for dipnet fishing and get 80+ fish for our freezers. Enough fish to last our family for a year or two as long as it stays good. Even sport fishing can easily get you several fish if you hit the run just right.
I don’t understand your last point about foreign fish being more expensive because isn’t the whole point is that it’s literally less expensive despite paying everyone in the supply chain? Honestly just looking for the best deals when I shop
@@carternaugler9641 Thats a contradiction. Its not possible for it to be less expensive to import but more expsenive to buy. If that were the case some other company would undercut them with locally caught fish and make a killing.
No, that would just make EVERYTHING more expensive. Before passing new laws, why don’t you check and see if any of the existing ones might be the cause?
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.
I agree about supporting local fisherman. I have done so for many decades and ignore store fish. In Tucson Arizona we especially like our Sandcod, Sunburntrout, Dessicated Grouper, Saguarosquid, Rocksalmon, and our rare delicacy scorpioneel. Good eatin' all.
Well, I wouldnt say this is a thing only in the US. Im brazillian, and live at the coastline side of my state. Pretty much all you said applies here too, the fish we found on stores is nowhere near the quality of the one I buy at the local fisherman's (luckly for me I have a close friend who is one, so it even cheaper).
I have worked in the commercial fishing industry for 30 years. On one hand for the kind of bulk purchases that are made from commercial fishermen, other countries are very often willing to pay more than USA companies are willing to pay. On the other hand, the price difference between what factory ships get for frozen product and what consumers pay for that same species is huge. There's a real opportunity for someone to cut a few steps out of the supply chain.
As a person who lives in Massachusetts also The Cape isn't the only place to get fish. I live in Fairhaven. So there's New Bedford, Fall River, Dartmouth, Westport, Swansea, Seekonk Attleboro, Taunton, Raynham, Rehoboth, Marion, Mattapoisett, Wareham, Quincy, Chelsea, Cambridge, Braintree, Plymouth, Hull, Lynn, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Gloucester, and many more up and down the coast. Hell, even Springfield, Worcester, Fitchburg, Ware, Barre, Leominster MA, and these are all central or western Mass. Really any place in Rhode Island, Portsmouth, NH, and any coastal city or town in Maine. This guy is all cap.
I live inland, there are no local commerical fishermen and I don't have the time to go fishing for myself. That's why I rely on whatever grocery stores sell. The unfortunate thing is a few conglomerates control all (practically) the grocery stores and they do buy imported fish. But fresh caught is always better, I completely agree with that
Spent a few summers on Prince Edward Island when the kids were small. We used to go out with a local fisher once or twice a week for a morning of fishing for Mackerel, and then bring them back for lunch. There is absolutely nothing more amazing than fresh caught fish!
Someone tell Captain America you need a license to sell fish, you also need a license to catch in large enough quantities for it to make sense to sell. There are only a set number of commercial permits per region too. Complex issue made to look simple
Same problem in the UK. We're an island, the same size as a US state, where the coast is literally a few hours drive (max) in any any direction...and yet, our fish is 80%+ imported.
We got a couple restaurants that buy local fish from a select group of fishermen (today's catch is basically yesterday hooked) but there is one particular restaurant that says fresh and never frozen and we see the trucks bringing in the frozen slabs. Nobody local goes there for the fish for that reason
In texas we have HEB. They buy directly from fishermen in the gulf of mexico so it’s pretty much the freshest you can get from a store at the lowest price because there aren’t as many middlemen. But of course anything not native to the area (salmon, lobster, etc) has to be shipped in
I spent a lot of time fishing in Alaska, halibut in the Bering sea and flying up into the mountains landing on glacier streams fishing for salmon. It was so good.
This is good advice for a lot of things in any part of the world. Support your local economy. Buy fish from local fisherman, repair your laptop at the local repairshop, etc...
Australia is the same... Major supermarkets seem to place a high value on consistent supply and pricing, which is probably a result of consumers at the end of the day.
I like how you are mentioning this to bring awareness. Us local fishermen here in Louisiana have been battling foreign imports price for a long time. You just cant beat corporal greed. They dont care about the consumer as long as someone keeps buying it, there will be a market for it.
Same is done to our beef just from my experience, supposedly the cows we got were grass fed and from local farmers but actually the beef comes imported cheaper in foreign countries like India, china, Mexico , Dubai and surrounding nations
When i was a teenager i worked as a chinese chef, my master told me, Why people use sesame oil and pepper on seafood? Because its not fresh, have to cover the smell with that
For everyone understandably asking how they can buy from a local fisherman, i recommend farmer's markets! Obviously it doesn't help if you're far from a major body of water, but if you're near the coast (or even a big enough lake) you can get some great stuff. You can also talk to them about the health benefits or drawbacks of each fish, whether they were caught ethically, etc.
In the UK it's just the same. Chances are, you can ask 95% of people if they know any species of fish that you can eat in the UK and they will tell you a variety that gets either imported from Iceland or is deep fried in batter and came from somewhere in Europe.
Local fisherman here, im not too confident that our waterways can supply commercial levels of food without taking a toll on our fisheries. Id love to sell my fish and make some side money but id rather be able to tell my kids about the lengths we went to, to restore the populations which dwindled from years of overfishing. Farmed fish may or may not be unhealthy but i see a bigger need for investigation into the health and ethical farming techniques they use so that we can trust the imported fisheries and local offshore and inshore fishfarms. I just want to see more fish i remember my grandparents stories of coolers full of flounder and trout every year
Run off from the wine industry destroyed fish habitat here in Nor Cal. And they lie about it.
That’s the tradeoff you get with choosing locally sourced food. No mass production. Even our meat and poultry comes from overseas industrial farms. But if we chose only American family owned farm raised animals, there would be no mass production. But a lack of mass produced goods would help with our obesity issues. There’s a lot of factors to consider. Personally I think we should ditch mass production. The corporations aren’t gonna like that though 😂😂
You hate overfishing but you love the stories of your granpa overfishing? Dafuq?
@@olsenarliawan2951You have no earthly idea what overfishing means, and it shows.
This is the real answer
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.
The most important thing is to make sure fish populations remain stable
@bdub8442 sounds like corporate greed COPE to me. And to the folks saying getting our fish local will kill the sport fishing for rich white dudes on their mini fishing yachts. Yeah, killed two birds with one stone on that last comment. Nobody is going to shead a tear for you. Because you only care about you. Community need > Your need for stuffed marlin on your basement bar wall.
Which, again, can be done better by supporting local fishermen, who are bound by our stronger US regulations than overseas fishermen who often do not have such restrictions. I may be wrong but I think that actually may be one of the main reasons so much fish is imported, because they catch it at unsustainable rates and sell it at large volumes and low price, which is exactly what all the middlemen want, low prices at the source so they can jack up the price along the way for no reason. Buy local
They’ll be fine
Exactly what I was thinking, if local fishermen can satisfy the demand of the US population why the hell would companies risk longer supply chain that are more susceptible to disruptions, shrinkage, less visibility, less control, and the list goes on. My guess is there are caveats like I might want a type of fish but the population locally is depleted and need time to recover, also sadly regulations of populations are looser abroad so that's another caveat. Truthfully the solution in my humble opinion is to adjust our demands for seafood, and be more flexible, if we demand less in alignment with sustainable supply locallý and are more flexible in our choice of seafood based on availability locally, retailers would have zero reasons to source their fishes from abroad. There's no conspiracy, just economics.
The oceans can't sustain our current seafood consumption.
Sounds like something a local fisherman would say
Keep eating toxic farmed fish, nobody cares.
😂😂😂😂
Big local fisherman
He's not wrong though. Imported fish is preserved and changes so many hands in the supply chain so you're paying for that cost. As opposed to local fisherman who go through the labor and marketing themselves, AND it's fresher.
I can tell you I’ve harvested trout here in the rockies and the meat was more red and the flavor far more complex than any salmon I’ve had at any Montage resort or high end restaurant. The fish was bled within 10 minutes of landing and was on the grill in less than 30. Lactic acid builds up in the blood of fish and can greatly impact the meat quality.
Show me one, just ONE industry in this country that’s not broken because of corporate greed?
@@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.
@@Josh-qd7lq name 1 non-tribal society that used socialism and did not devolve into a brutal dictatorship
@@galladegamer6950There isn’t any. Vietnam, Venezuela, North Korea, China, Laos, Russia, and Cuba are all modern day socialist countries and they all have dictatorships. And let’s not forget about history. The USSR and Nazi Germany may not exist anymore, but they were still two of the biggest socialist dictatorships to ever exist. Millions of people have died and people still continue to die because of socialism. I’ll take capitalism any day. It may have its flaws but at least people aren’t being murdered because of it.
@@galladegamer6950 all of known examples have died-out due to foreign intervention(infamous CIA-backed coups, extinguished anarchist rebellions, countries like Cuba which were forced to align with the USSR due to hostilities from the US' side. The closest thing to socialism we have is European left-leaning democracies. But it is not like only Socialism tends to result in a dictatorship, there are many examples of right-wing dictatorships which have exploited the democratic order(Latin American military dictatorships, restored monarchies, Italian and German fascist dictatorships - just to name a few).
Gun?
Theres fish in MY backyard?? Someone get the poor bastards some water!
Dude as a person living in the Midwest was thinking the same thing
@@iHateRats-mt3sj The midwest is where all the great lakes are though… 😅
@NjorunsDream Well Nebraska so more like the center but still no water
Hey buddy. It’s YOUR backyard. Stop waiting for someone else to look after it for you. Get out there and help those poor bastards
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Yeah I live in suburban Texas so…
Just one problem: Where are all those "local fisherman"? I've lived in Southern California for my entire 61 years and have never seen them, at least not with the volumes feasible to supply Southern California. I see guys at street fair booths with a couple ice chests whose fish is like 10x more expensive than the grocery store.
That's where you would go. You pretty much have to goto the docks in the morning and buy fish as they're coming off the boat. You'll mostly be competing with commercial restaurants who have enough time to spend buying product.
TL;DR-Just buy farmed frozen fish. It's harvested and frozen right away. Even the "fresh" fish in the grocery story is frozen and then thawed for sale. Just buy it frozen from the start.
And stop listening to bougie influencers who try to convince you to spend all your free time chasing after some unrealistic ideal. It's especially funny here because living in Cape Cod, you know he probably pushed the policies that made the local seafood impossible to get in the first place. XD
Most local fishermen don’t sell at the farmers market, they sell directly to seafood restaurants and small business diners. Santa Monica Pier has a famous small business seafood locale right on the pier, delicious local seafood.
@@FurlugeI mean I work at a grocery store fish department. A lot of stuff’s frozen but a lot isn’t. Like our salmon’s all kept unfrozen
@@L-Archange salmon was frozen long before you ever got it
@@Shadowboost Under FDA guidelines we have to display if it’s ever been frozen tho
"There's something seriously wrong with the fishing industry in the United States"
*Shows someone putting olive oil on salmon*
…? How do you cook your salmon to avoid sticking
"Buy from your local fisherman" is ludicrously unrealistic for like 95% of the population.
boy where did you get 95% from, its more like 20%, me and everyone i know never bought fish from the stores, only from local sellers
Imagine implying 95% of the US population lives in flyover states with such a straight face lmao
The vast majority of people live at least a few hours from a notable body of water, it’s not that hard
@echo0957 Well, thats you and everyone you know. I'd imagine a lot of places in this country dont have places where you can buy fish that isnt from a big grocer, since a lot of newer subdivisions really only have chain stores or places that import them anyways.
Not just that, but he's 100% wrong about it being cheaper from your local fisherman lmao.
Is it really that hard?
Started buying gulf shrimp from a fish market. The things are monsterous, and the texture is nearly identical to lobster tail
Where are they selling them on the regular?
@ChiquitaSpeaks I was in Sacramento at the time going to a place called sun fish market but I just moved to florida 2 weeks ago and now I have to find somewhere else
The nearest fish market for me is 2.5 hours away. Just isn't feasible to shop there.
@mchonkler7225 sheesh. If you were to order them (even the ones I got were prev frozen) the ones they have on "markethouse" or "all fresh seafood" They look about the same as what I was getting, not too crazy on price either. You'll probably get it with dry ice. AFS looks has slightly better looking shrimp, but the key is wild caught, gulf shrimp shell-on.
Lived in the Bayou State for a decade and their gulf shrimp are rocking. The gulf oysters are also huge juicy and very tasty! When the T.G.I.F. first opened in the late 70s in Shreveport during "happy hour" they offered fresh shucked oysters free as long as you were drinking their $1 draft beer! That's back when the Red River front was full of bars(several larger ones offered popular bands and others dancing) and great restaurants. Now sadly it's all casinos......glad I was there to see and enjoy the good old days!
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.
Bros never taken an economics class
literally
And what exact economic principle would this violate
@@anasexualdragonwithinterne2912
Wrong.
*Wrong again.*
*CHECKMATE.*
(Sorry, I just wanted to know what it felt like)
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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?
right on...thanks for pointing. that out and aquaculture is massive farming of fish in pens. I don't know what is the big deal about supplying affordable protein to Americans from these asian farms and norway instead of depleting our oceans.
No one wants farmed seafood. Farmed shrimp is the worst taste. And omg farmed tilapia is just really bad.
@@bobbylite1969 yes, the fisherman are greedy
"Only an hour from Cape cod" I'm F U C K I N DEAD!!!
It's like saying it's easy to support local farmers, when you're the guy that lives right next to the farmers market lol
FR! Try getting fresh fish in the Rockies... it ain't happening unless you know someone who recreation fishes. Even if a recreation fisher did catch it, it's illegal to sell it to the public then!
If you pay attention, it's because he's making the opposite argument. Despite having ready access to local fish, his own grocery stores still choose to import them.
@@TwilitbeingReboot that's because supermarkets aren't willing to pay the local fisherman enough for their fish to be worth their time, importing fish in bulk is cheaper, and the only way that math is going to change is if we just tear up US fishing regulations and labor laws (not going to happen).
Also at the end of the video he says to buy directly from local fisherman, which is only an option for him because he lives right next to Cape Cod lol
@@Michael-uc2pnTbf for your first paragraph points he did talk about that. Tho yeah I agree he did drop the ball given your second point. If there was a follow-up about how to access local fisherman even in landlocked places then the point would go together well.
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.
Ok, so local fishermen can handle the demand of 320 million people off lakes and shores?
Not everyone in the US eats fish 😂
@@DJHASDIMONDS that's sad not funny
320 million people is not local. Certainly ten local fishermen is enough to support a small city
@@MandNsvideos665how is that sad ?
If you're referring to the US, the US has a whole lotta shoreline. It's one of the most sparsely-populated large nations; there might be 330 million people in the US, but they live across 3.8 million square miles. There's 100,000 miles of coastline. That's more coastline than China or India boasts, supporting a smaller population than China or India. Just for some perspective.
Keep in mind one of the reasons for this is because foreign countries have more lax or no regulations on safety or quality of fish, and overfishing. We can only get so much fish out of bodies of water without killing them all. Guess what? We eat too much. The ONLY way to meet that demand is buying foreign fish. Fish used to be so common it was often considered a staple food source in the US. Now, we just can't support the population with our fish like that. So that's a big reason why local fish is so much more expensive, because there are limits on how many fish can be caught so that there will be any fish left to catch tomorrow.
Judging from many of the other commenters, not true
Sometimes fishermen go out to fish and don’t haul enough to recover the fuel cost. They truely have it tough but everyone thinks fishermen just throw a net pull it to port and easy money
@@dimitrijekrstic7567 bro gets his info from youtube comments
@@dimitrijekrstic7567 just because a group of people say something, doesn't make it true or intelligent. Keep that in mind.
Now I wonder if china does the same
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.
Also, fresh (local caught) Poke, ahi, is so expensive (over $20/lb) at most supermarkets with a poke counter. The "Prev frozen" kind is cheaper.
Also, we don't have many of the fish that the people in the mainland can fish freshly. I like my Alaskan salmon. There's also the fact that every time fish farming is bought up over here it gets shot down by activists. Both aquarium fish (obviously) and food supply fish (I understand, but that's still better than sending out a boat that can leak fuel and/or oil).
@PinkAgaricus there are several reasons for this. Fresh yellowfin is some of the best fish I've ever had, but you can only consume so much of the fish before you have to preserve it or let it rot. With the tuna I caught (about 120lbs worth), I got to eat about 8lbs before having to freeze the rest.
It's still good frozen, but typically it's sold as sushi grade tuna at that point (never frozen ahi can have parasites, so it's not legal to sell it as sushi/sashimi).
@@PinkAgaricus
Fish farms produce poor quality fish and pollute the water. It’s no different than how agricultural farms pollute the land with chemicals.
Bro I live here where do you get fresh caught fish?
@@yoyo2598 Tamashiro’s
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.
That’s easy. Just go to a local farmers market. Almost every city has one or two at least.
Yeah that’s largely because the U.S. exports capitalism all over the world.
@@thestoebz There is not a single climate on earth that supports any and every fruit and vegetable you could possibly want, least of all year round. The reality of the situation is that fruit and vegetables are necessarily imported because I'm not growing a tomato in December, though an Australian could. On top of that, it's been proven that a statistically significant amount of farmers market produce is just crap bought from Wally World and resold at a markup instead of actual local produce.
This is kind of silly. If American seafood is cheaper and better quality, you wouldn’t need to be here telling people to buy it. That’s literally how markets work. Something ain’t mathing here
That’s how well-functioning markets work. Markets can be distorted by unfair regulation, yielding a set of incentives that make a worse consumer outcome the most logical for the system, with the biggest beneficiary being the corporate entity that lobbied for the regulatory change.
@@midnightfuture I agree that regulation can distort markets, but those distortions manifest themselves through higher prices. But the video is claiming that the price is lower on American seafood. If American seafood truly is lower priced and higher quality, again, he wouldn't need to be asking people to buy it. The reality must be that American seafood is higher priced, or lower quality, or both
@@panzermk8it's because large fisheries can set the price of fish. If there's a large fishery and a smaller local fishery in the same area, the larger fishery can set an insanely low price for a limited period that the smaller fishery can't hope to match, causing them to close. Once the larger fishery has eliminated competition they can set the price higher. This is how large corporations have been pushing out smaller corporations for decades.
the issue isn't quality. the issue is price. "locally sourced" just means they can slap any price they want on it for the "quality" and "ethics" of it. People buy fish from grocery stores cause the cost is lower ( and convenience, they dont have to go anywhere out of the way) . I occasionally go to markets with local farmers and fishers, i end up leaving having spent more than i would at a grocery store. sure the stuff tastes better, but to most people, the additional cost isn't worth it.
Unless you break the math, it's just a rant you're offering here
You've said the fish changes multiple hands but even then it's cheaper than your first hand fish.
It's not about the money
The prices are around the same. In some places local is a little cheaper while in others it's a little pricier. But regardless, I think the main argument of this clip is that local fish makes for higher quality food and that it helps the local economy better than buying imported.
@@timesup6302You only get to decide that when it's your money.
Then it means someone is losing, likely the foreign fishermen by exploitation
Fax, he's not offering anything substantial here, feels like rage bait to target hate at "capitalism" and the institutions
"Wrong"
"Wrong again"
"i hate to break it to you but you're wrong again"
Bro we didn't even answer anything
0 for 3 without even taking a shot, sounds like my dating life.
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.
In theory that could be true. But I think in reality the grocery store frozen fish is fish that they tried to sell fresh but couldn't get rid of, because it is already stink as soon as you defrost it.
Grocery stores get all their fish frozen. The frozen fish was never thawed, it's been frozen since they caught it. The fresh fish at the grocery store is actually just thawed fish.
Minnesota, I did not realize this but all fish here is frozen. I always thought the stuff in the grocery store was fresh but its thawed from frozen. Same with restaurants. Same with sushi. I know this bc I went to Florida and Maine and actually had fresh fish. You really can tell the difference. Fresh fish is almost jello like. Frozen is much more firm after coked.
@@SmashhoofTheOriginal Any time you can get your fish frozen, ergo near the ocean it's like that TBF. I was talking more inland where frozen is the better option, and more likely to be flash frozen for shipping.
Local fisherman aren’t always certified vendors for fish. At least if you get sick from eating fish that comes from an approved vendor you’re not liable. If you get sick from local fish that’s on you.
There's this beautiful technology called fire, and it's use to cook things, try it
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
I live in Louisiana. We have a law that restaurants must state they are using imported seafood if they are using imported seafood and not local seafood.
Crawfish is something we love down here and we make a lot of seafood dishes and appetizers from them. There are two kinds you can buy at the grocery store: the cheap and the expensive one. The local one is expensive, at 18 bucks for a pounds worth. The cheap one is only half the price. Here's the crazy thing though: for the cheap one, they ship the crawfish caught here, to another country, to be peeled and sent back here.
I work at the airfreight and that's exactly how it's done and what we deal with on a weekly basis. Shripms are caught, send by airfreight to other ountries, get there peeled and cleaned just to be flown back - and this is cheaper than use local workers do it ... ridicilous, but we have all jobs because the sistem works like that
It’s due to the greed of the Bubba-Gump heirs. It wasn’t like that when Forrest was still alive.
Yet WE gotta recycle more🙄 Thats Crazy
There's no way crawfish peelers get 9 or 10 dollars a pound so it shouldn't be cheaper to process it abroad. There has to be a tax or subsidy to incentivize going abroad bc the shipping is not cheap
Shit 18 a pound!!!
So where does all the American caught fish go then? It can’t all go to restaurants and private buyers that know fishermen
Here in Alaska it often gets shipped to Southeast Asia to be canned then shipped back to the US because it’s so much cheaper to can it overseas.
@@gujwdhufjijjpo9740 WTF!!!
Exported to the much bigger asian market and yet sold much cheaper than you can possibly buy it
@gujwdhufjijjpo9740 so they would rather us be dependent on a region of the world that isn't exactly the most friendly to the West just because it's cheaper? Wow money really does ruin everything.
Thanks to the tree huggers, there's not enough US caught fish.
"I know some sardines for your pizza cost like 30 bucks, but please support your local fishermen"
-signed, local fisherman
Australian here, is sardines on pizza a thing in the states? My Italian wife insists on them on her homemade pizzas but I can't stand them.
@@michaelmhee Pizza shop owner here. Sardines is one of the more rare toppings on pizza, but some people like them. We keep a couple tins on hand for the occasional person who wants them.
@@GDuncan8002 Cool, thanks! I've never come across them in pizza shops here.
His example of being landlocked is living an HOUR from Cape Cod.
What about those of us who love 15 hours from such places? Who is our local fisherman?
He was showing how he ISNT landlocked and its still expensive. if your 15 hrs away from fishing waters you dont have local fisherman and fish probably isnt a huge part of your local diet or culture, so grocery store is the best you can get n you just sorta have to deal with it
comprehension skills rn: 😢😅
This commercial only offers a derogatory complaint. No solution.
There is absolutely no local fisherman in the high desert.
Ignore this fool that made this ad.
Yeah good luck buying fish from a local fisherman here in New Mexico.
“Buying fish from local fishermen is too expensive”
“What can I do about it?”
“Buy fish from local fishermen”
If it’s too expensive for corporations to pay local fishermen, what makes it cheap for me?
If you buy the fish directly from the local fisherman, you aren't paying the 30% markup that the grocery store charges so that they make a profit. I can't guarantee that it will be cheaper to buy from your local fisherman than the store bought foreign stuff, but you ARE getting a better price than the store could EVER give you for seafood that is actually fresh and tastes MUCH better
Stop expecting everything needs to be cheap for you. Its your body, you should be spending extra for the things you put in it.
@@CrowniecrownIt’s not like people are struggling at the moment
@@stantorren4400 Guess you're going to have to pass on the fish then.
@@CrowniecrownOr buy cheap fish because thanks to corporations you can do that.
As a farmer i understand your point. Consumers, though, will always show their real voice with their wallet. They buy at the grocery store as its typically cheaper than from me, and other farmers at the market. Biggest reason? Many food, like asparagus, are grown in Peru which have no labor laws, they also grow monoculture and use alot of synthetic pesticides, and coat the foods in wax as part of processing, to create the longest shelf life. Natural foods normally only last about 2 weeks tops after picking, seeing food sit forever in stores, especially after coming from far away. I understand, trying to grt the food for cheapest is appealing, and for many its all you can afford, but unfortunately theres a "you get what you pay for" when it comes to this.
Yep, and even farmers shop at Walmart. In fact, they were the among the earliest customers of Walmart before Sam Walton started building stores in urban areas. And contrary to popular belief, Sam imported many products from China way back then even while promoting American-made. He was actually a pioneer in sourcing Chinese-made goods, which eventually made it easier for others to follow in his footsteps. Funny how over the decades there’s been so much focus on American farm relief, yet they contributed to the downfall of American manufacturing by enriching Sam Walton so he could expand his business.
@LuckyCharms777 thats true, but also dont discount the shift in the workforce. In 1900, according to us dept of labor census, alost 40% of the population was in agriculture (this includes ranchers, and fisherman). Fast forward to 2024 it's less than 2%. The population of the country has since expanded alot since the. More pressure to produce meat, feuit, and veggies to be done by fewer and fewer people. Add free enterprise and you have a system that makes ot increasingly difficult to farm, and make any money. Hence why more go out, larger ones buy whats left, then you have people like bill Gates buying up substantial amounts. You have a very unhealthy system that really makes everyone suffer. The best way to fight it is by buying from the local farm market, or buying land to become more self sufficient.
@@Moon_Cricket_Stinks then prices need to match local folks wallets.
@lesliemcmillan2971 or do what Angela Merkel did and tariff imports to match domestic prices. Unfair competition was created by free enterprise and enforced by consumers looking for what's the cheapest, not the healthiest, where it's from, or geopolitics. Not every country gets to choose to not pay it's workers which has a huge impact on prices. Knowledge is also the only other thing, I can tell you what's on those store foods, and if consumers still buy and eat, then they agree to consume the additives along with it. I can't get prices lower as I don't make much profit by the end of the season. Us farmers don't see profit until most of the season worth of selling is over.
The EU has no tasty food, and everything is cartelled trash. The quality is meh at best 😅 but checks all their bureaucratic bs boxes.
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
That's alot of tuna to eat by yourself in one sitting...
You shouldn't eat raw fish that wasn't freezed for at least a day, eating parasites is not a good idea lmao
@dasscat4600 that's true, the safest way is to let it freeze before eating but nothing happened to the few times I've eaten it fresh caught
@@ScubaSteve721you wouldn’t really know that unless you get tested
@DoritoBot9000 well it's been 2 years so I think I'm safe
It’s not greed, its economics. we mass import fish because other countries have bigger ships and infrastructure/plants that reduce the overall cost of getting a fish to you. a local fisherman would spend on gas, insurance on the boat and the time to catch a fish all accounted for on said fish. while another is caught in a huge net and just floped onto you for a fraction of what the local fisherman is charging.
thats not even counting for cost of licensing and sales, its cheaper for bigger fishing corporations as a whole. The fish in stores wouldnt be there if it wasnt efficient and economic. sure the local fish would be more flavorful, but do you want to wait hours and pay a little more when the convenience of having said same fish on ice at a store?
it’s just macros 101
Very true! It’s always crazy to me that people can even pretend that glaring market inefficiencies can exist and no corporation in the supply chain cares to take advantage of it.
I mean, dont you think the grocery stores all over the coast would love to buy cheaper, better quality fish from local suppliers and be able to undercut everyone else? They would be all over it if that was true.
Also they talk like local fishermen could just supply a whole nation by themselves. That's like the most basic reason why countries import and export goods.
As someone whose father was a merchant mariner, I disagree. Americans have massive fishing boats too. It’s just that American merchant sailors are unionized and require higher wages than foreign fishermen.
The problem is that I live a mile from the beach near St Petersburg Florida where the fishing boats come in at, and the local fish mongers prices are way more than the supermarkets. I'd love to be able to support local fisherman, but they have to lower their prices
Im not sure why people think buying local should be cheaper. Your local fisherman probably expects at least $30 an hour for his efforts. A boat off the cost of Asia will pay workers $30 a month.
@thebookwasbetter3650 yeah it's weird because I'm originally from Houston and Galveston is 45 minutes south, but they bring in fresh seafood daily to Houston and you can find local independent seafood shops for cheaper than the supermarkets. Something about Florida fisherman makes them think they deserved to be paid more than Houston, which in Houston they have to transport the seafood a lot further than here right on the beach in st Petersburg. But don't get me started about Florida. That's just one thing I can't stand about Florida
@@FishRfunYep. Unfortunately for the fisherman perhaps, the market does not factor in the fisherman's effort alone. There's always the customer and there's always price.
Why should they. They aren't being paid in foreign currencies that value more than theirs, they should be rightfully compensated for their work. This goes for the foreign fishers too, this isn't about cost it's about doing what's right.
@@haihuynh8772 you're right they have every right to charge twice what the grocery stores charge, but they shouldn't sit there wondering why they can't make a living doing it. Perhaps they should find a different field of employment if they can't compete
POV: you’re a local fisherman
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. 😴
The government doesn’t set prices, all that’s happening is corporations maximizing profits.
@@donovan4222 The govt issues fishing licences and sets laws about who can fish where, when, and how.
I've tried and they always charge exorbitant prices. I'll either just catch it myself or go to the grocery store. If I'm cooking it, it doesnt have to be the freshest.
If this is true, why don’t people already buy fish from local fishermen? Seems silly to turn down a better product for less money
Most people wouldn't know where to go to buy from local fishermen, said fishermen would struggle to meet the kind of demand a supermarket meets, and the prices they set would be influenced by market prices anyway, which means they don't end up being significantly cheaper and may even be pricier than at the store. With the amount of effort needed to buy from a local fisherman without much difference in price, most people will just do the easy thing and go to a supermarket.
Well the local fisherman wants three times the price of an imported fish !!! 😂
It's not that he wants it like that, he needs it like that in order to make it profitable. Blame capitalism, not him.
@@elianes5505 I know , but remember they blame it on immigrants for getting paid less. ,while the rest in here want to get paid over $20 an hour , so of course it's the whole corruption of the system. He wants to live and make profit so he can go to nice restaurants and buy a better car and fix his house , I get it but a low income person ( most of the usa are barely over the poverty line ) can't afford that that's why he can't eat fish on a regular basis!
@@elianes5505 Exactly, the landlord wants x10 the price for renting, the school wants x100 the price of a normal college in asia, the hospital wants x50 the cost of insulin... And we can keep going, as long as basic services don't go down, the fisherman (n any local businessman) can't lower their prices.
@@elianes5505 Nothing to do with capitalism. Literally the case in every rich country mate. Which is why companies import stuff because poorer countries tend to have cheap labour.
And in this regards its mainly the US being lazy for centuries not properly utilizing their fishing capabilities and rather go with the easier solution (import from dirt poor countries. Also they don't have to care about workers conditions overseas)
@@Surtr174 The reason the local fisherman has to increase the price of his fish is because the local cost of labor is higher than in less developed countries.
The cost of labor is almost entirely dependent on the capitalists and the logic of the market. Explain to me then, how it "has nothing to do with capitalism".
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
Would love to buy from a local fisherman I live in Missouri and our local fish market is Walmart 🤮
Same here. I trust foreign fish that's frozen more than anything local.
This preserves our fish population so long as its. I like having the option to fish in plentiful local waters.
Wait till he find out hows his fishing poles made
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.
Eyy trueee! I worked at a fishfactory in the Faroe Islands and every sunday we sliced the Salmon from our fish farmes into fine filletts to be shipped to the US. Now slicing them costs extra then sending them whole, but the sushi industry on the east coast of the US liked em that way so there you go. But it makes you wonder how much extra money was put into that than getting salmon locally, or even from Canada
This is because most countries are overfishing even for their local stores. I live in a country where theres open markets everywhere with fresh fish. The cost is the water is poorly oygenated and the fish all around are suffering. Also the populations are many times a year depopulated. So the prices are constantly fluctuating and its overall stressful to everyone to deal with all the strong fluctuations.
There is something seriously wrong with basically every aspect of America at this point, and I say that as an American.
I don't see why this is a surprise - the cost of living in the US is VASTLY higher than most (if not almost all) countries in the world. A Malaysian tilapia farmer's time is way cheaper than his counterpart in South Carolina, just like a migrant worker from Mexico will pick strawberries for cheaper than literally anyone with a permanent residence in SoCal. I don't care if you were born in the most dilapidated trailer in the park; if you're an American you're instantly the rich kid in the global neighborhood.
We export almost all of the fish we harvest in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska to Japan and the rest of Asia. I am an Alaskan fisherman and I've seen it firsthand for years. Even some packaging on factory vessels is written in only Japanese and Mandarin.
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.
Necessity > Sport
I could care less about SPORT FISHING as it's just a hobby. We care about paying American fishermen a living wage not stock holders' margins.
@@jpscharged i think you're missing the point here, sport fishing doesnt damage the fish population as much as commercial fishing. Overfishing is a very severe problem and the American fishermen won't even have a living wage if the fish resources is depleted.
@@jpschargedYou are not owed a "living wage," especially when you destroy the environment. Drop the entitlement.
The argument that foreign fish is worse *and* more expensive makes no sense. The market regulates prices to an extend where there has to be a monetary sense in importing. If local fishermen can afford to offer the cheapest fish, no outside company would be able to compete. There must be other issues at hand which are not talked about here.
quality and transportation issue. Anything moved that much losses freshness is the point. You also have to understand the cost of living difference. An asian country can survive off what they sell it to our companies for. A fisherman in america might need $10 a fish where a fisherman in asian will take $0.50
Agreed, myom buys from my local fishermen (Massachusetts)
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 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.
There’s also just less farming land in Alaska because it’s subsidized in the lower 48.
Im Australian, tho from my oversights I find it either absurd or amazing that you can grow fruits in such cold climate, was it done in greenhouses or just outside?
@@JacksonMcgarvey2665 - both. Depends on the fruit. I’ve eaten wild berries above the Arctic circle.
@@gujwdhufjijjpo9740 Ah I see, thanks for the response. :)
Thank you for telling the truth. I could immediately tell the difference buying from local fisherman at the piers and farmers markets. ❤
Maybe local fishermen should make it easier to buy from them?
Same with pretty much every market clothing,food,textile, etc all overseas due to dirt cheap labor and sweatshops all why we need tariffs to encourage made in the USA.
Then prepare to pay 10 times the price? Anyone who has visited countries with the so called sweat shops know people globally are harder working for less pay. Go to any fast food restaurant in U.S. and you see laziness written on their forehead
As someone who's the most landlocked possible (we have a surprisingly high amount of saltwater fish here though? Good supply line I guess) I'm curious how I can do this. I can't necessarily buy from my LOCAL fishermen but I wonder if I can find affordable stuff from fishermen on the coasts that are at least US local? I have a really well rated fish market that opened near me about a year ago but still haven't visited, so I'll have to see where they get their fish from since it seems like good quality.
Here in France, at least when close to the coast, you’ll find fisheries close-by to our fishing ports (and even away from them) and their fish is delicious.
Sometimes you can even place orders directly with some fishing boats for various crustaceans.
Only issue is that our fishermen have to follow french laws for sea conservation, but the english (and maybe other nations too, can’t remember too well, so take it with a grain of salt) have fewer qualms in fishing during those times (and sometimes even close or IN our seas) which angers our fishermen (who wonder why they can’t fish too… but if there are no fish in the sea it will be hard to fish later on, won’t it).
I’m sorry, no, it’s just that Americans are not raised with that flavor and for many people fish is just something they don’t care about. Many nationalities that immigrated to America were not big fish eaters. But even for those who used to eat fish in their land of origin, America simply had too many other easier protein sources. So over time, fish eating culture never developed. As much as I like blaming corporate greed for everything, in this case they are other much more influential factors to consider.
Then change your burger flavour to fish flavour or enjoy diseases after 40!
@@riveraharper8166 which part of my sociocultural analysis implied that I, personally, eat burgers and not fish?
@@ek5384 your Blunt attitude made me guessed you are some proud burger eater american saying no to any healthy food by default.
Fisherman don't care whether you can afford it. They only care about their bottom line. If that's the case then I don't care if they go out of business.
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"
The word fresh just means not frozen. It doesn't actually mean that it's fresh
I worked for bonefish grill in charleston south Carolina. We got our shrimp shipped to us from india. Crazy stuff
This is because the US is very sparing with commercial fishing licenses and in enforcing them. As a result we have some of the healthiest fish stocks on Earth. China fishes the majority of the worlds seafood and have destroyed their local ecosystems, which is why they are exploiting other nations’ waters.
Different strategy means US is importing fish and China is just selling them to other countries in huge quantities
Basically, in order for the people responsible get more money, they make a process more profitable for them, and you pay more for it.
That's not how supply chains work they pay other countries to import it so they don't have to pay the Americans that get 20/30$ an hour instead they pay a Chinese person 5$ and it makes it cheaper for the consumer at the grocery store if they had to pay more for imports like he's saying in his video they would use domestic fish because they could charge more and make a larger profit
Okay, I'll just ask my next door neighbor to fish in the Hudson River for me.
Alaska is a biiit less hit by this because the salmon fisheries here are world-class and support a decent chunk of commercial fishing (though it varies with the salmon runs). We are blessed that if we want to get Alaskan Salmon, we can just take a day trip to a place open for dipnet fishing and get 80+ fish for our freezers. Enough fish to last our family for a year or two as long as it stays good. Even sport fishing can easily get you several fish if you hit the run just right.
I don’t understand your last point about foreign fish being more expensive because isn’t the whole point is that it’s literally less expensive despite paying everyone in the supply chain? Honestly just looking for the best deals when I shop
Less expensive for the people selling it, but more expensive overall for the consumer since we are at the end of the chain
Did you even listen to him? He said it’s less expensive for the country to import it, but more expensive for the consumer to buy it
@@carternaugler9641 Thats a contradiction. Its not possible for it to be less expensive to import but more expsenive to buy. If that were the case some other company would undercut them with locally caught fish and make a killing.
@@cameronhoward99 marketing attracts foolish consumers like flies to honey
Guess what, if you live in Nebraska, your American caught seafood is going to be changing hands just as many times.
He's landlocked too takes him an ENITRE HOUR to drive to the docks your just not trying hard enough/ s
Politicians
Corporations and lobbyists
*See what the white mans done* lol
Hate to break it to ya, but this problem could be easily and cleanly solved by *tariffs.*
No, that would just make EVERYTHING more expensive. Before passing new laws, why don’t you check and see if any of the existing ones might be the cause?
Yeh let's make inflation worse
I bet “hate to break it to ya” is a phrase you hear a lot
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?
I only buy fishing poles in America. Never fish
I agree about supporting local fisherman. I have done so for many decades and ignore store fish. In Tucson Arizona we especially like our Sandcod, Sunburntrout, Dessicated Grouper, Saguarosquid, Rocksalmon, and our rare delicacy scorpioneel. Good eatin' all.
Well, I wouldnt say this is a thing only in the US. Im brazillian, and live at the coastline side of my state. Pretty much all you said applies here too, the fish we found on stores is nowhere near the quality of the one I buy at the local fisherman's (luckly for me I have a close friend who is one, so it even cheaper).
I have worked in the commercial fishing industry for 30 years. On one hand for the kind of bulk purchases that are made from commercial fishermen, other countries are very often willing to pay more than USA companies are willing to pay. On the other hand, the price difference between what factory ships get for frozen product and what consumers pay for that same species is huge. There's a real opportunity for someone to cut a few steps out of the supply chain.
Same in the netherlands. Grocery store fish is disgusting compared to the stuff from the fishermen.
There’s something seriously wrong with pretty much every industry in the US
As a person who lives in Massachusetts also The Cape isn't the only place to get fish. I live in Fairhaven. So there's New Bedford, Fall River, Dartmouth, Westport, Swansea, Seekonk Attleboro, Taunton, Raynham, Rehoboth, Marion, Mattapoisett, Wareham, Quincy, Chelsea, Cambridge, Braintree, Plymouth, Hull, Lynn, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Gloucester, and many more up and down the coast. Hell, even Springfield, Worcester, Fitchburg, Ware, Barre, Leominster MA, and these are all central or western Mass. Really any place in Rhode Island, Portsmouth, NH, and any coastal city or town in Maine. This guy is all cap.
I live on cape and honestly, there's better places in Massachusetts to get fish 🤣
I live inland, there are no local commerical fishermen and I don't have the time to go fishing for myself. That's why I rely on whatever grocery stores sell. The unfortunate thing is a few conglomerates control all (practically) the grocery stores and they do buy imported fish. But fresh caught is always better, I completely agree with that
Spent a few summers on Prince Edward Island when the kids were small. We used to go out with a local fisher once or twice a week for a morning of fishing for Mackerel, and then bring them back for lunch.
There is absolutely nothing more amazing than fresh caught fish!
My local fishernam is called costco. High quality and cheap.
Someone tell Captain America you need a license to sell fish, you also need a license to catch in large enough quantities for it to make sense to sell. There are only a set number of commercial permits per region too. Complex issue made to look simple
Same problem in the UK. We're an island, the same size as a US state, where the coast is literally a few hours drive (max) in any any direction...and yet, our fish is 80%+ imported.
We got a couple restaurants that buy local fish from a select group of fishermen (today's catch is basically yesterday hooked) but there is one particular restaurant that says fresh and never frozen and we see the trucks bringing in the frozen slabs. Nobody local goes there for the fish for that reason
In texas we have HEB. They buy directly from fishermen in the gulf of mexico so it’s pretty much the freshest you can get from a store at the lowest price because there aren’t as many middlemen. But of course anything not native to the area (salmon, lobster, etc) has to be shipped in
This is a general problem of globalization in many industries.
As with most products....
Theres a point to importing, absolutely.
But local supply is exclusivly better than external supply.
ESPECIALLY with Food.
I spent a lot of time fishing in Alaska, halibut in the Bering sea and flying up into the mountains landing on glacier streams fishing for salmon. It was so good.
I appreciate everything about this video. The effort, the message, the information. This is quality.
This is good advice for a lot of things in any part of the world. Support your local economy. Buy fish from local fisherman, repair your laptop at the local repairshop, etc...
Australia is the same... Major supermarkets seem to place a high value on consistent supply and pricing, which is probably a result of consumers at the end of the day.
I like how you are mentioning this to bring awareness. Us local fishermen here in Louisiana have been battling foreign imports price for a long time. You just cant beat corporal greed. They dont care about the consumer as long as someone keeps buying it, there will be a market for it.
Same is done to our beef just from my experience, supposedly the cows we got were grass fed and from local farmers but actually the beef comes imported cheaper in foreign countries like India, china, Mexico , Dubai and surrounding nations
When i was a teenager i worked as a chinese chef, my master told me,
Why people use sesame oil and pepper on seafood? Because its not fresh, have to cover the smell with that
THATS why the fish we catch at my auntie’s cabin tastes so good!
As a fish lover in Northern California, could not agree more. The local fish here is incredible.
For everyone understandably asking how they can buy from a local fisherman, i recommend farmer's markets! Obviously it doesn't help if you're far from a major body of water, but if you're near the coast (or even a big enough lake) you can get some great stuff. You can also talk to them about the health benefits or drawbacks of each fish, whether they were caught ethically, etc.
In the UK it's just the same. Chances are, you can ask 95% of people if they know any species of fish that you can eat in the UK and they will tell you a variety that gets either imported from Iceland or is deep fried in batter and came from somewhere in Europe.