Fish No Longer Local
Series: The Health of Puget Sound
From: RadioActive Youth Media
Length: 00:01:36
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Puget Sound is an estuary where fresh and salt water mix. It was a paradise sea creatures and people who love to eat them.. There are rocky shores, tidal flats, and deep underwater valleys?prime habitat. But these days the seafood lovers among the 3.8 million people that live around the Sound have to go a lot further for their meals. Puget Sound doesn?t have much of a commercial fishery What is left is small, sometimes toxic and in trouble. Weekday High intern Tatevik Aprikyan wanted to find out where the fish we eat comes from.
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Puget Sound is an estuary where fresh and salt water mix. It was a paradise sea creatures and people who love to eat them.. There are rocky shores, tidal flats, and deep underwater valleys?prime habitat. But these days the seafood lovers among the 3.8 million people that live around the Sound have to go a lot further for their meals. Puget Sound doesn?t have much of a commercial fishery What is left is small, sometimes toxic and in trouble. Weekday High intern Tatevik Aprikyan wanted to find out where the fish we eat comes from.
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Puget Sound was a paradise for fish and people who love to eat them. The Sound is an estuary where fresh and salt water mix. There are rocky shores, tidal flats, and deep underwater valleys?prime fish habitat. But these days the seafood lovers among the 3.8 million people that live around the Sound have to go a lot further for their meals. Puget Sound doesn?t have much of a commercial fishery. Weekday High intern Tatevik Aprikyan wanted to find out where the fish we eat comes from.
TOURISTS FLOCK TO THE PIKE PLACE MARKET TO SEE FISH FLY. SOME OF THOSE FISH HAVE FLOWN A LOT OF MILES, ACCORDING TO MICHAEL PEARSON, ONE OF THE FISH THROWERS AT PIKE PLACE MARKET.
PEARSON: "We get warm water fish from Fiji, the Philippines, we get shrimp from the gulf coast, scallops from the east coast, salmon, Alaska, and local Washington coast tuna, Albacore, and sometimes crab . . . we only have...
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Emily Raymond
Posted on August 29, 2006 at 08:01 AM | Permalink
Review of Fish No Longer Local
As a native (and very nostalgic) Seattleite, I was interested to hear what was going on up in my hometown, and this short but interesting piece did not disappoint.
I was surprised to hear that Puget Sound, which seems such a bountiful place, supplied almost none of the region's seafood, and interviews with a fish thrower and a local chef elegantly illustrated the globalization of seafood and provided an interesting spin on the conflict between protecting the environment and local industry. The producer's use of sound is excellent, and at its close, the listener is left with a thought-provoking answer to the question "Where does my food come from?"
The piece would fit very well in a magazine-style show about food or environmental health.