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Fighting For Local Seafood

瓜神app | By Anita Rao,
Frank Stasio
Published June 5, 2015 at 11:33 AM EDT
Image of Eddie Willis, who is a fourth-generation fisherman. He is the founder of a community supported fishery called Core Sound Seafood.
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Eddie Willis is a fourth-generation fisherman. He is the founder of a community supported fishery called Core Sound Seafood.
John Day
Image of Paul Greenberg, who is an author and journalist who focuses on fish and aquaculture.
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Paul Greenberg is an author and journalist who focuses on fish and aquaculture.
Paul Greenberg
Image of Paul Greenberg's latest book "American Catch," where he details how America imports the majority of its seafood despite access to a lot of oceans.
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In Paul Greenberg's latest book "American Catch," he details how America imports the majority of its seafood despite access to a lot of oceans.
Paul Greenberg
Image of John Aydlett showing a local seafood exhibit at the State Fair.
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John Aydlett shows a local seafood exhibit at the State Fair.
Ann Simpson
Image of cultural anthropologist Barbara Garrity-Blake.
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Barbara Garrity-Blake is a cultural anthropologist who has spent more than two decades documenting coastal folk traditions.
Barbara Garrity-Blake
Image of steamed blue crab tasting at Outer Banks Seafood Festival
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Steamed blue crab tasting at Outer Banks Seafood Festival.
Ann Simpson

The United States controls more ocean than any other country in the world, but more than 85 percent of the seafood Americans eat is imported.

Award-winning author calls this 鈥渢he great American fish swap.鈥� His latest book, 鈥溾�� (Penguin Books/2014) uses shrimp, salmon and oyster as case studies for what he calls the 鈥渦nraveling of America鈥檚 seafood economy.鈥� The fishing industry in North Carolina is one part of this greater seafood economy and faces a number of unique environmental and economic challenges.

Host Frank Stasio is joined by Greenberg and a panel of North Carolina experts to discuss the industry: is a cultural anthropologist who documents coastal folk traditions; is a fourth-generation fisherman and the founder of , a community supported fishery; and is the vice president of NC Catch, an organization that supports initiatives to educate the public about local seafood. They speak Saturday as part of the 鈥溾�� events that supports .
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Business & Economy The State of ThingsPaul GreenbergEddie WillisBarbara Garrity-BlakeJohn DayFishing IndustryThe Center for Environmental Farming SystemsFarm to ForkCore Sound SeafoodAmerican Catch: The Fight for Our Local SeafoodSeafood economyShrimpOystersMarine Fisheries Commission
Anita Rao
Anita Rao is an award-winning journalist, host, creator, and executive editor of "Embodied," a weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships & health.
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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's 瓜神app Director.
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