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Throughout European history, cod has been a staple food. But cod populations have plummeted. The worldwide catch has declined from 3.1 million tons in 1970 to around 800,000 tons today. The fishery collapsed off the east coast of Canada, and fishing there was banned in 1992; the North Sea cod take is now down 75% from 15 years ago. Farming cod, says Viguie, "was a no-brainer, really--you have a fish which is endangered that is also a big part of many nation's diets...
Raising money for their company, Johnson Seafarms, was not so effortless. The $60 billion fish-farming industry has a foul reputation from problems associated with caged salmon, such as parasites and pollution from concentrated fish wastes. Investors were leery. Viguie and Rzepkowski argued that farming cod would be cleaner. Cod is white fleshed, so it doesn't require dyes that are added to farmed salmon; nor does cod attract sea lice, so chemical pesticides aren't needed. By 2005, Johnson Seafarms had raised $38 million and had begun exporting cod to U.S. restaurants and specialty markets. The company aims...
...mackerel. Predators like seals and otters are repelled by a second net around the cages, instead of being shot or trapped. "We want to innovate the whole aquaculture industry to show it can be environmentally sound," says Rzepkowski. And at the same time save that great English culinary invention, fish and chips...
...soon introduced to the world of “firms”—groups of sports fans who make the Yankees/Red Sox rivalry look like a friendly dinner table debate. Their main forms of recreation prove to be supporting their team, drinking heavily, and beating the fish and chips out of rival firms...
...museum's glazed models of forts and bas-relief fragments from tomb walls, provide an extraordinary glimpse of Chinese life some 2,000 years ago: how people dressed, what weapons they carried, what kinds of houses they lived in. One well-modeled terra-cotta cook is intently scaling fish at his workbench. His eyes are fixed, his sleeves are rolled up, and his hat looks very much like a French chef's toque. The museum's mingqi extend through several short-lived kingdoms up to the Tang dynasty (618 A.D. to 907 A.D.). Some of these pieces are not much...