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The thought of 200 million gallons of oil spewing into the gulf is enough to give anyone pause, but at this point, you’d think folks would be clamoring for almost any alternative to the half billion suspect eggs the feds began recalling the same week as the president’s outing. Gulf fishers — shrimpers, in particular — have had a tough time of late. Many had only just rebounded from Katrina when the well blew less than two weeks before the opening of the season. Worse, over the last 15 years they’ve lost the bulk of their market share to foreign imports. More than 90 per cent of the shrimp consumed in this country comes from Thailand, China, India, and Ecuador, where the shrimp is raised in ponds so overcrowded, they also serve as breeding grounds for salmonella, bacteria, and parasites, which are combated by adding massive doses of antibiotics and fungicides to the water. Then there’s the taste and texture, which Dave Pasternack, chef at Manhattan’s Italian seafood mecca Esca, calls “disgusting.”
Given the imports’ lovely provenance, it’s ironic that Americans are now squeamish about the catch in the gulf. We spot-test less than 2 per cent of the shrimp that comes in, compared with the 20 to 30 per cent required by the European Union. Contrast that to what’s going on in the gulf, where waters must be free of oil for a month before fishing is allowed. Samples of all fish and shellfish are then aggressively tested for contaminants by both the FDA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which subjects them to microscopic analysis and “sniff test”.
Anyone with doubts about the seafood would have been convinced by the feast Link and Pasternack cooked up at an event sponsored by the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau. © Newsweek
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