How Alabama Catfish Is Helping To Keep The World’s Fish Stocks From Floundering

By Deena Shanker
Bloomberg

Farmed or wild? Local or imported? Organic? Or some certification you’ve never heard of?

Anyone who has tried to be an eco-conscious seafood consumer – or seen headlines about plummeting wild fish stocks or antibiotic-laden seafood from farms in China – has faced these questions.

There are many more. Take farms, whether inland or in the ocean. So much depends on the particular operation. Are antibiotics used to fight disease in overcrowded pens? What’s the feed made from, and is too much provided? How much waste do the fish create? Are the currents strong enough to disperse all of that? What is the ocean floor like? Are the fish native?“With fish, people come in and debate,” said TJ Tate, director of the Sustainable Seafood Program at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. “Consumers want to see a tag, a label, a box, something they can feel confident about, and grab it and go.”

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