Help. The other night a meeting was held in San Francisco that was attended by many of the most influential and successful restaurateurs in the area. They were told by a group including 1) Beth Clark, "a biologist and director of the Antarctica Project" , and Robert Mazurek, "a fisheries research biologist for the Monterey Bay Aquarium's seafood watch program", among perhaps others (I was not there: this is all pieced together from newspaper articles as well as radio news pieces). What they were told was, 1) At the current level of fishing, Chilean Seabass will be extinct (in some accounts, just "commercially" extinct) in 5 years 2)"of the most popular seafood dishes, Chilean sea bass is in the worst shape. Worse than orange roughy, worse than sharks,worse than rockfish and Atlantic swordfish. 3)"For every ton of legally caught fish, 5 or 6 tons are taken illegally"....I heard a lot more, but I developed a case of vertigo that I haven't been able to shake since.
Please, ucdavis-ites, .edu me. And soon, please....
Barry Cohan
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