I always check where seafood comes from on the container. If it doesn’t say, I don’t buy it. If it says “southeast asia”, I don’t buy it. If it says “farm raised” I don’t buy it. I don’t need government intervention, therefore, except if there is misinformation, then I want someone to sue them.
Farm raised can actually be a good thing. I prefer farm raised catfish for example, because the diet is better controlled and the fish don’t eat any old crap off the bottom. The taste of many farm raised fish is much more consistent.
farm raised = raised in filth ( if in a foreign country )
Do you trust a restaurant to tell you or for the waitress to even have a clue the type of and where the fish in your fish and chips came from?
Or at the fish market?
We have a state law here in Oregon so the fish market/dining place can't lie.
We live in a fishing port and tourist/people assume the fish is non farmed fresh and local or even USA/Canadian.
My local grocer rarely gets USA prawns and he keeps them stowed in the back for those of us that buy them....they cost twice the price of Asian farmed.
To get local f/v or near local non farmed fish you have to know where to go....most tourist don't know the places and the price is hefty.
Had some fresh Sturgeon the other day yum....
80% of fish sold in the USA is farmed or fresh from Asian countries.
Lately one of our fish markets has been carrying frog legs...from China...hmmmmm we wondered what kind of habitat those where raised in.
Being a fishing port us locals are big supporters of buying fresh local even at the high prices.
JMO
I never eat fish ever see what fish eat? or what they swim in.