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couchmaster

climber

pdx

Oct 29, 2013 - 04:28pm PT

Well, as long as the fish are disappearing, maybe the Democrats can keep paying the fishermen with your tax money so that they can be viable and finish driving a stake in the heart of the fishery.

Oh wait, been there done that: http://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/west-coast-senators-urge-disaster-relief-forfishing-communities

......and another $60 million in 2008....
http://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/closure-of-salmon-season-declared-a-fisheries-failure

I was pissed enough to write him when Senator Wyden gave the Tuna Fishermen $14,000,000 as they had successfully over fished to the point where their boats were near sinking and they had so much Tuna at the dock that the processors couldn't handle it - prices had collapsed so the gov. gave them some money and collected what by then was cat food. So bitch all you want about the fish disappearing, you are assisting and paying for it via your tax gifts for them overfishing.

Toker Villain

Big Wall climber

Toquerville, Utah

Topic Author's Reply - Nov 5, 2013 - 10:39pm PT

Well, I dropped $85 for one dinner two nights ago at Tataki, the original sustainable sushi place in San Francisco, and already I broke my word, but not really, because they serve only pole caught tuna.

I gotta tell the ST gang about this place (not that they need any more business). Even on a sunday it was packed with three couples ahead of me in line, but I spotted the single free seat at the bar and swooped right in.
The place is small; 6 tables packed so close that if the next table orders one of those flaming dishes you could get singed. The sushi bar has 4 seats, making 24 in the place total.

The menu is modest (but I was happy to note that ikura is considered sustainable by them so I do not need to give up my Piton Rolls). But despite the brevity they still carry my two favorite sakes, Kurosawa and Otokoyama. I had a carafe of the latter and was shortly joined by a nice young couple with a small startup company who, like me, had already taken care of their business in town and were just playing tourist.

They knew nothing of the documentary and had yelped the place, being sophisticated enough to check the number of revues besides the rating (third in the city).
I called for more glasses and quickly made Otokoyama converts. They ordered more.

We had a lively discussion interrupted from time to time by the passing of flaming plates.
Besides 3 oysters I had 2 of their signature dishes, scallops Tataki and a Tataki roll (multiple fish, cucumber and multicolored tobiko) and 2 orders of nigiri, shiro maguro and suzuki.

Everything was superb. I couldn't even pick a favorite.

There may be hope for fish lovers yet, but sadly, I doubt that ethical eating will catch on.
It is human nature not to appreciate something until it is gone.

BTW on the way home I stopped for 10 raw clams at the REAL seafood house by the hotel and by the time i had my "pirate's breakfast" (after a late night, sleeping until 11:00 and then eating 25 clams washed down with ale!) I had eaten 65 in 4 days!