Posted on 12/30/2014 7:15:12 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
IN 1982 a Chinese aquaculture scientist named Fusui Zhang journeyed to Martha’s Vineyard in search of scallops. The New England bay scallop had recently been domesticated, and Dr. Zhang thought the Vineyard-grown shellfish might do well in China. After a visit to Lagoon Pond in Tisbury, he boxed up 120 scallops and spirited them away to his lab in Qingdao. During the journey 94 died. But 26 thrived. Thanks to them, today China now grows millions of dollars of New England bay scallops, a significant portion of which are exported back to the United States.
As go scallops, so goes the nation. According to the National Marine Fisheries Service, even though the United States controls more ocean than any other country, 86 percent of the seafood we consume is imported.
But it’s much fishier than that: While a majority of the seafood Americans eat is foreign, a third of what Americans catch is sold to foreigners.
The seafood industry, it turns out, is a great example of the swaps, delete-and-replace maneuvers and other mechanisms that define so much of the outsourced American economy; you can find similar, seemingly inefficient phenomena in everything from textiles to technology. The difference with seafood, though, is that we’re talking about the destruction and outsourcing of the very ecological infrastructure that underpins the health of our coasts. Let’s walk through these illogical arrangements, course by course.
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bread and circuses/beer and football/irresponsible sex and pot
That you know of.
I do live in the country and I do have a pond, a very small one. First owner should have dug it deeper.
I do have largemouth in there, a few in the 3 - 4 lb range. kids catch them and throw them back. I’d like to add catfish to eventually catch/eat, but the pond is too small.
“Sure you can. Move to the country and push up your own pond.”
That is fast becoming illegal, and enforced, unlike illegal immigration.
Its ironic isn’t it - when we have a 50 year low in labor participation, record users of food-stamps, 20 million illegals in the country, and a real unemployment rate that’s probably still 10%+
We can’t find anyone to process American fish cheap enough?
We have so many environmental regulations is the main reason. Also, fishermen are limited as to how many fish they can catch. My daughter goes out on boats and counts the fish, also if they net more than a few dolphins they have to go home. She has to cut up the dolphins to send to the gov’t.
Conspiracy? No, reality. Why would our leaders, born and raised in the heartland of America, oversee the largest transfer of wealth in world history from American families to a communist country technically our enemy? hmmm?
Poverty rate in America exploding. More Americans on gubbamint assistance than any other time in our brief history as a nation.
Sure, its about business, but I submit it is more about power/greed. Capitalism....all for it. What we have now resembles capitalism with massive corruption world wide.
Business? Maybe, but we have a national security situation on our hands. Unless we have our leaders negotiate FAIR trade agreements, require worker safety, slave labor laws and laws protecting the Chinese/Indian/Taiwanese water and air, business as usual will continue to be as crooked as the day is long....all for power and greed.
NOAA and EPA regulations are designed to destroy American jobs and businesses.
UN Agenda 21
There in lies the problem. But you knew that!
I’m sure without FDA regulations there must be huge cost saving involved. Scares the hell out of me when I pick up a package that says “product of China”.
“It was explained to me by someone knowledgeable when I asked why Alaskan Cod comes from China.”
More likely it is caught by a Chinese boat and processed/filleted /frozen on board. The frozen final product is dropped off at a US port. Maybe a Walmart frozen food distribution center
It is not sent to China for processing
As is the case with many industries, not just those for edible consumption.
The public can be pathetic, and the elite know it and act upon it.
What do you think?
Can that really be cost effective?
Apparently.
Haven’t we learned with all the dogs that died from tainted dog food that maybe, just maybe this isn’t a good idea?
Nope.
We have so many environmental regulations is the main reason. Also, fishermen are limited as to how many fish they can catch. My daughter goes out on boats and counts the fish, also if they net more than a few dolphins they have to go home. She has to cut up the dolphins to send to the gov’t.
But our CEOs keep telling us they have to move production, engineering and computer work off-shore or they can’t compete. It isn’t just politicians.
I have about an acre of pond. It has been cleaned out and is deeper now.
My understanding is, below a certain size, a pond does better with catfish (and some kind of perch) than it does with bass. So that’s how I plan to proceed.
I doubt we’ll ever harvest a lot from it, but it’ll be nice to have the option.
>> [pond building] is fast becoming illegal
Probably depends on where you live.
Around here (rural Central Texas), it’s not a problem. (*Unlike* illegal immigration...)
EXACTLY TRUE !
NOAA , under the Sect. of Commerce, imposed a system of "Catch Shares" on American fisheries, despite specificly instructed by Congress to not implement this program.
"Catch Shares" restricted the amount and number of fish caught by Commercial and Recreational fishermen; this program brought about the demise of the New England fleet.
With NOAA reductions in the number of fish brought inshore, the commercial viability of the fleet was bankrupted, and "Catch Shares" could be bought at reduced price.
Many of thses catch shares were bought up by foreign contries and 'non-profits'(ie: PEW Foundation,etc.)
Amerian fleet fishery was bankrupted by FEDGovt. restrictions, and bought up by foreign nationals whereby they could processed more cheaply
in offshore fishing processing fleets, or, processed on the foreign shores, and then shipped to the U.S.
NOAA ,under the "Catch Share" program, implemented Lubchenko's scheme to bankrupt American commercial fisheries, and subsequent "shares" were sold to foreign nationals.
It is said that 95% of Snow crab legs caught in U.S. waters are "shares" owned by the Chinese, and processed in offshore fleets which are at sea for 3 months each,
and then turned around and sold in American markets as 'American Wild' even though the 'shares' are owned by Chinese, processed offshore by Chinese fleets.
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