Hundreds of chefs, restaurateurs and dealers across the country have agreed to participate in “Take a Pass on Chilean Sea Bass.” The fish (which isn’t a bass at all, it’s a Patagonian toothfish) is being overfished to the point of extinction as environmental laws struggle to keep up with hungry American pallets driven onward by marketing. The punchline to the story (if you can say such a thing) is that commercial fishermen in Antarctic waters have now begun substituting a related fish, which they call Antarctic toothfish for “Chilean Sea Bass.”
[via New York Times: Science]