Where can I buy fish/seafood that is not from China?

[traces7]

I decided that we should try to eat more fish and was looking at it in the store today and most of it was from China!!!

I usually don't buy fish because my husband fishes alot and we usually have some in the freezer, but we've run out. I thought I'd try and make some baked fish, I looked at a couple different kinds in the frozen section, cod, etc. and they all said a product of China. Can you buy fish from the US? Where?

I remember I had a hard time at New Year's finding crab legs and shrimp that weren't from China, finally found some crab legs from Canada. Anyone know where they have seafood that is not from China? Thanks!!!

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Go to the fresh fish section at the grocery.

 

[LisaR]

Just remember that even if it isn't from China, it may not be the fish you thought it was.

http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Mislabeled-fish-a-widespread-problem-4295946.php


http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine-archive/2011/december/food/fake-fish/overview/index.htm

 

[Sabeking]

I don't want to hijack but I have a question. They say don't eat from China and don't eat farm raised. What is left for tilapia or flounder ?

 

[wilkeliza]

I know Whole Foods is really good at telling you where the food is from.

I personally have no qualms with farm raised so I eat that or stuff from the Gulf or even Alaskan salmon.

 

[Elmo9607]

I have a package of Whole Foods tilapia in my freezer that is from Ecuador. It's farm raised though...they have an extensive collection of fresh fish however (and it is very, very expensive)

 

[ilovemk76]

I don't want to hijack but I have a question. They say don't eat from China and don't eat farm raised. What is left for tilapia or flounder ?

Not to eat it.

We love wild caught Icelandic haddock and wild caught Alaskan Sockeye salmon.

Our grocery store sells these fish and others that are wild caught and NOT from SE Asia.

 

[SandrA9810]

It really depends on where you live and what is in season. I love it when the pacific salmon is in season and 1/2 the usual price. Really don't care for the farm raised anymore

There's a few sites (might be able to find them on the monteray bay aquarium site) about what is local to various regions.

 

[Elmo9607]

You can also buy seafood from Legal Seafood online too. I believe they are based out of Boston.

 

[Janepod]

The fresh fish counter should have some wild caught options, but I have never seen wild tilapia. Flounder, no idea. I always see (at our local store) salmon, halibut, red snapper, gulf shrimp, swordfish, plus a couple other things that will show up once in a while, like wahoo or mahi mahi.

We don't eat farmed fish or any fish from Asia. Googling that stuff will turn your stomach.

 

[traces7]

We live in a small town in the midwest, don't really have a fresh fish section in any stores here. But I'm going to check next time I get to a bigger town!

 

[tvguy]

I will say our grocery story puts very large labels on seafood showing country of origin. Lots of Equador and Chile and yes China. Hard to find Oysters or clams raised anywhere but China, and there is a big legal fight going on right now over Oyster farming in the Pacific off the coast of California, feds shut it down, courts ordered restarted. Now beef, pork and chicken, almost always raised in the USA.

 

[Carl]

My favorite is North Sea fish, and catfish is also pretty good.

 

[lucas]

I don't understand why the stores are allowed to sell fish from China if it is harmful to you.

 

[mombrontrent]

Walk around any store and you'll see plenty of stuff for sale that's harmful to you.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I don't want to hijack but I have a question. They say don't eat from China and don't eat farm raised. What is left for tilapia or flounder ?

What "they" say and what you can actually afford or get is something else you have to take into consideration.

It is healthier to eat the farmed salmon than to not eat salmon at all.

Now granted feeding the salmon the "coloring food" is not healthy for us I am sure, but again, unless you are a very strict vegan, you eat it already in other processed food. So damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Tilpia is mainly farmed raised, good luck finding "wild tilapia". I won't eat it because I don't like it. The RUMOR of tilapia is that they are poop eaters. I don't know if that is true but I do know for a fact that prisons have gotten into the farming of fish, driving the local businesses out of business. It is hard for me to eat it just for that reason. "Whole Foods" sells "Prison Tilapia" as it is called.

 

[scoutie]

lucas The same reason they are allowed to sell toys with lead and other harmful materials in them. The almighty dollar.

To the OP--Whole Foods is where I buy fresh seafood.

 

[dadddio]

I don't understand why the stores are allowed to sell fish from China if it is harmful to you.

Because people generally don't agree that it is harmful to you.

 

[dadddio]

What "they" say and what you can actually afford or get is something else you have to take into consideration.

It is healthier to eat the farmed salmon than to not eat salmon at all.

Now granted feeding the salmon the "coloring food" is not healthy for us I am sure, but again, unless you are a very strict vegan, you eat it already in other processed food. So damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Tilpia is mainly farmed raised, good luck finding "wild tilapia". I won't eat it because I don't like it. The RUMOR of tilapia is that they are poop eaters. I don't know if that is true but I do know for a fact that prisons have gotten into the farming of fish, driving the local businesses out of business. It is hard for me to eat it just for that reason. "Whole Foods" sells "Prison Tilapia" as it is called.

Why is it a problem that a prison is farming fish? If they were growing cows, would that be OK? What if they were growing corn? Building furniture? Training dogs?

 

[traces7]

lucas The same reason they are allowed to sell toys with lead and other harmful materials in them. The almighty dollar.

To the OP--Whole Foods is where I buy fresh seafood.

We have a Whole Foods about 35 miles from here that I want to go check out!