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Article: Chilean sea bass: Patagonian toothfish is a good buy, but don't bank on it getting any better, as demand in China should grow. (Buyer's Guide).(Statistical Data Included)
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- Seafood Business
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
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Chilean sea bass is a fish that chefs love and a fishery that environmentalists hate. According to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, keeper of the most widely circulated list on what seafoods we should -- and should not -- be eating, Chilean sea bass is a fish to avoid because "heavy, unregulated fishing is wiping out this slow-growing, deep-ocean species. In 1998, the illegal catch was 10 times the legal catch."
The National Audubon Society puts Chilean sea bass on its list of seafoods to avoid. The Society also confuses consumers with its erroneous observation that "Patagonian toothfish is marketed as Chilean sea bass to mask illegal catches and trade. Most of what ...