Five sustainable - and delicious - fish you should eat (LA Times)

[pinto]

Five sustainable - and delicious - fish you should eat

By Russ Parson
September 1, 2013, 8:00 a.m.

Sustainable seafood is one of the big buzzwords in food these days. And it is important: So many of our most popular fish are close to being overfished. The trick is expanding our palates, finding fish that we aren’t already loving to death.

But finding alternatives is daunting – most of us didn’t grow up with great markets, so the range of fish we know is limited. Still, there are great fish out there. So I put the question to a panel of seafood experts at Saturday morning’s “Field to Fork” segment of the Taste: What one fish would you want to put in people’s hands that is both sustainable and delicious?

Lisa Hogan, a vice president of Santa Monica Seafood – one of the leading seafood wholesalers on the West Coast – chose Santa Barbara spot prawns. They’re trapped off the Southern California coast and sold live from tanks. “They are so sweet and so delicious,” she said. “I guarantee you that once you taste these, you’ll never go back to farmed tiger or white shrimp again. They’re just amazing.”

The Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Sheila Bowman, who manages their wildly successful Seafood Watch program, chose Pacific rockfish. “If it’s line-caught, not netted, it’s sustainable,” she said. “And as far as I’m concerned, it’s a fish that can do no wrong. It’s so delicious.”

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[LuvNewcastle]

1. Good ideas, but I would also like to see some choices

for Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic fish. About the only time I see Pacific fish is in the frozen section at the market. It's an L.A. paper, though, so I can see why.

[pinto]

2. Yeah, the focus is LA / West Coast. Would like to see this posed in other areas.

[GliderGuider]

3. "The trick is ... finding fish that we aren’t already loving to death."

... and loving THEM to death, too.

Think farmed fish is "sustainable"? Think again.

All fish consumption is ecocide.

[Jenoch]

4. The story did not mention

Alaskan pollock or crab, but those are sustainable species.

[pscot]

5. There used to be pacific rockfish in Puget Sound

Of course there used to be codfish too.