Seafood Industry Quotes

I began cutting up fish when I was a little kid.

I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.

I dreamed: I am the fish whose flesh is eaten, and because I am fat, it is good.

When I was really young, I wanted to be a fishmonger's wife.

The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices that include miles of driftnets, long lines with thousands of lethal hooks and bottom trawls are ruining ocean ecosystems by killing non-seafood species, including sea turtles and marine mammals.

One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I'm pretty quick at it.

There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish.

I would like to go fishing and catch a fish stick. That would be convenient. I could easily get a job at Mrs. Paul's.

Salmon farming-the placement of large metal or mesh net cages in the ocean to grow fish-was pioneered in Norway in the 1960s. Since then, the industry has expanded to Scotland, Ireland, Canada, the US, and Chile, but is dominated by the same multinational corporations. Wherever it is practiced, net-cage salmon farming is controversial and raises serious environmental concerns.

Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken of the Sea.'

Despite the vast expanse of shoreline in this country, more than 90 percent of the seafood Americans eat is imported.

Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent 10,000 miles to China to be filleted, then sent back to Scottish shops and restaurants, than to pay Scottish filleters.

Of all the jobs I've had, sliming fish was pretty good preparation for life in Washington.

Oysters, such as Dabobs, Quilcenes, Westcotts, and Willapas, to name just a few, are often named after the place they are harvested.

Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.