Thinking global, acting local

The USA’s infamous seafood trade deficit isn’t getting any smaller, as most consumers would rather buy reasonably priced seafood imports from developing countries than comparatively expensive ones from domestic farms that could impact their views and their ecosystems. There’s an understandable logic to this but, as Aaron McNevin writes in his latest article “the inequity of supply chain value-sharing has become so extreme that pets in developed countries are nourished better than the farmers who are feeding us”.

It’s one of several chastening thoughts in the article, but on the eve of the introduction of the SEAfood Act, whether such arguments can be used help persuade US policymakers to allow meaningful growth of the domestic aquaculture sector remains to be seen.

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