Environmental groups urge Americans to eat more fish while hunkering down against virus
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In California, fisheries make up a significant portion of the coastal economy. Dungeness crab alone — the most valuable seafood in the state — was a $63.5 million industry in 2018, according to the latestby the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Squid that year was the second-largest, at more than $35.5 million.
Seafood harversters across California were grateful for this week’s support from environmental groups. Exports have already been hurting — especially exports to China, where California’s Dungeness crab is usually a huge market. Other foreign markets and supply chains have all but disappeared as well., the crisis looms even larger. About 80% of U.S. consumption of domestic seafood takes place at restaurants — not at home.
“We’re already feeling market impacts because of the overnight evaporation of the restaurant industry — that and our export market, which is also gone,” said Noah Oppenheim, executive director of Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations. “Even in times of shelter-in-place and coronapocalypse, we need to remind people that they have a local, sustainable source of protein right in their backyard.
Fishing itself has not been affected in California, said Oppenheim, who noted that some shelter-in-place orders in Northern California have specifically carved out fishing as an essential sector. Seafood remains aMany fishing operations have started to turn to social media, delivery apps and selling directly to consumers from boats at landing docks. They’re spreading the word that fish such as halibut, when stored properly in a freezer, can last for months.
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