Andrew Zimmern

You know, tuna, halibut, shrimp.

add one or two other things to salmon, right?

Now, do we have recipes for those things in the book?

Yes.

But the majority of the book is about a lot of things that you can do with filter feeders like mussels, oysters, and clams, tinned fish, smaller species that are closer to shore that not only are fresher, not only are being carried now in more seafood shops and supermarkets than ever before, but also ones that are being farmed on land or at sea.

Right.

And aquaculture, the farming of seafood is is safe.

It is profitable for those that do it.

It is cost-effective for the consumer because as demand for it rises, the producers have the system and the distribution points to create more seafood for us to eat, grown in an aquaculture system.

And for the first time in human history, it's essentially...

Essentially, yes, there are a couple of bad actors out there and it's not perfect, but essentially problem free.

We've eliminated copper netting.

The feed ratio is now one to one or better, right?

We are not growing fish in overcrowded pens.

We now have a system to feed them where the food is not dropping through these pens and causing pollution on the ocean floor.

I mean, all the problems with agriculture from the 70s have been solved.

We need more investment in things like aquaculture globally to feed a hungrier and hungrier planet and less rainbow chasing like cell-based fish or seafood that will not scale for 20 years and will still be too expensive for the average consumer to afford.

I believe that there isn't a problem that we have

hunger, food waste, national security, international security, economic, job equity, gender equity, pay equity, immigration, climate crisis.

I've just named 10.