There is a thriving calamari industry in Rhode Island, but it could be more local.
Fishermen in the state catch more than 22 million pounds of squid each year, worth around $28 million annually. However, most of it is not eaten fresh. Rather, about 80 percent of the squid is frozen, loaded onto trucks and shipping containers, sent to China, processed when unfrozen, then frozen again and sent back to the Ocean State, as The Westerly Sun reports.
It’s done this way to cut labor costs, but Diane Lync, the chairman of the Rhode Island Food Policy Council, wants that to change. She wants the seafood industry in Rhode Island to be self-sufficient and environmentally sustainable — something she says wasn’t on the minds of most people 25 years ago but is prominent today.
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7 comments:
Another AMERICA sell out company. How can they actually save money by this process??
Catch it, freeze it, then send it on a 24000 mile round trip for cheaper processing. There's something wrong with that. Accommodations need to be made to bring those jobs back home.
Americans probably don't want to do that kind of work. It's just like harvesting farm crops and teenagers used to do that as a summer job. Now, a teenager wouldn't be caught dead in a field. That's why the Mexicans are doing it.
Thank you Obama administration and the REPUBLICAN Congress of Ryan, Bonehead, and Mitch McConnell. They ALL gave Obama administration everything he wanted. Not once did they say no. Not once did they fight Obama administration on ANYTHING. They are still helping Obama today.
817 you are a verified doofus if you think these methods started with Obama. Please have a seat sir. Even your hero Trump doesn't manufacture much, if any, of his wears here in the US
Why should people want to work. the gubment takes better care of them.
Doesn't somebody out there think it's the Unions fault? Come on folks, say what you really think. How bout it sbj
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