This is a YouTube video titled "Where Was Your Salmon Before You Bought It?" containing a monologue or single-speaker discussion from February 13, 2020, about the salmon supply chain in the U.S., including topics like wild salmon availability, the practice of shipping frozen salmon to China for processing, and concerns about double freezing and food safety.
Do Americans have enough wild salmon to go around? Yes. If we kept all of our wild salmon in this country and didn't import farmed salmon, we could be self-sufficient in salmon. The other weird thing that goes on with salmon though is a certain amount of salmon that we catch, it's caught in Alaska, frozen whole, sent to China, processed and sent back. Defrosted, boned, and then sent back. And it comes back to us double frozen. How does that make a sense? Well, you know, it's interesting because shipping something frozen is actually not that costly. Because once you've got it down to temperature and you've sealed the box, you're just floating it back and forth. And it's actually not that intense, even from a carbon perspective. On the ships with all the super tanker fuel? Well, but you know, you can put a lot of stuff on a super tanker, you know, and it's floating. It's not, you know, it's, you're just sort of pushing it along. The bigger concern, I think, is like, Do you really want to eat something that's been twice frozen? I remember I was talking to Terry Gross about it and she was like, my mother said never to eat food that was double frozen. That's right, Terry. Why is that? Well, it does introduce the possibility of pathogens being introduced to it. Granted, in the miracle of the industrial food world, They have figured out a way to more or less have pathogen free.
