Nine months into this food systems reporting gig where I’ve done everything from cuddling with a heritage pig to chomping on fresh-picked mustard greens, there’s been a lingering question that’s bugged me all along.
What about the fish?
“The food system has not been paying attention to seafood,” Niaz Dorry, the coordinating director for Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance, said. “Change is happening in land food. For me it’s sort of ironic that the only thing that we eat that had the word ‘food’ in it has not been included.”
And that’s especially rich given that small and medium fishing operations have gone through almost the same exact decline as family farms as the industry has consolidated, privatized and taken over by large corporate interests.