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If We Increase Seafood Consumption, Where Will We Find the Fish?

Last Updated: October 07, 2011

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Released September 21, 2011

ORONO, Maine -- Some surprising numbers: of the seafood Americans currently eat, more than 50 percent is farm-raised, and nearly 84 percent is imported. But compared to other nations, we don’t eat that much seafood, and the most recent federal dietary guidelines recommend that Americans more than double their current average seafood consumption because of the health benefits.

If we all decide to start eating twice as much seafood starting tomorrow, where will we find the fish?

--continued on The Working Waterfront, http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/A-Balanced-Meal/14525/

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