Hey Joe,
Here I am in beautiful Jupiter,Fl. at the Bubba Gump Shrimp restaurant. Now you would think you could have some nice locale seafood,not a chance, everything they serve for shrimp is farm raised. All the fish imported too.
I can’t believe that we have to work so hard to find locale caught seafood,caught by American fishermen. I understand that we now as a nation import over 90 percent of our seafood. I can not believe our country stands by with our locale fishermen tied to the dock,over regulated,managed by bad science while our people eat imported seafood. I hope the recent cod quota proposal of 77% does not happen.Save out American Fishermen
Mike Parisi
Good Morning Gloucester 
Bubba Gumps is owned by the American company, Landrys
Restaurant Group. Landrys, privately owned by American, Mr Tillman
Fertitta, employes millions of Americans- they purchase plenty of
US Seafood from Alaskan Cod to east coast scallops, to Texas shrimp, to
Florida stone crabs & Alaskan king crab. You do not know what you are talking about Mr Parisi.
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I am not putting down Bubba Gump, as a restaurant,its not their fault that they can not buy a ready supply of locale seafood..The problem is that our country use to be able to provide fresh seafood,now we are forced to import over 90% to meet demand.Oh and bye the way, they only serve farmed raised shrimp,says so on their menu at least at this location.
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The Texas shrimp is farm raised. And by the way, right now there is huge availability of cod, global quotas have been increased 25%, . These fisheries, Alaskan, Iceland, Norway & Russia all have very healthy stocks and are supervised by scientific data. Also the US exports huge volumes of seafood harvested in US waters. Seafood is a Global industry . Comparing today’s needs to yesterday’s availability is not realistic.
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I guess if you where a US fisherman you would understand,enjoy your farm raised shrimp and slacked out frozen fish from over seas.
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If you really want to know were a restaurant gets its (seafood) just climb in the dumpster out back and retrieve the packaging.
Kevin McCarthy
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I quess you would have to be a working US fisherman to understand.Eat your farm raised shrimp and enjoy all the imported slacked out frozen fish you can stand.After dinner think about all the US fishermen out of work,thanks.
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Just remember, any shrimp from China are raised in tanks with chicken coops above them. The chickens poop right through the coop and feed the shrimp. Yum!
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This misinformation couldn’t be farther from the truth. This is a complete fabrication.
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Hi, Mike,
Looking for fresh seafood in a chain restaurant is like looking for fresh beef at MickeyD’s. We moved here to Melbourne Florida, just about 50 miles up the coast on US1. The problem in Jupiter is that there is virtually no commercial fishery in that area today, Fortunately, this part of the coast has several quality seafood restaurants. I shop at Nick Moon’s Amazing Little Seafood Market right on route one. I bought fresh Haddock there yesterday. Nick has local fish in season all year long. In addition, he has 2-3 deliveries of New England products each week and weekly shipments of Maine Lobsters.
He carries locally-caught Blue Crabs, Grouper, Cobia, Tilefish, Mahi Mahi, Pompano, Snapper and Flounder. For fresh shrimp, nick carries Cape Canaveral Whites, Roayl Reds, Key West Pinks and locally caught Rock Shrimp. He also supplies fresh fish to area restaurants.
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I moved to Fernandina Beach, Florida from Gloucester in 1968. My new hometown is known as the Birthplace of the Shrimp Industry. My wife’s family is considered one of the pioneer families in the shrimp industry. They have been harvesting shrimp for over 100 years. Shrimp today is the most popular seafood in the world, 90% are grown on a farms in a third world countries China, Southeast Asia, and South and Central America, this is not a seafood! This third world aquaculture industry is destroying there coastal ecosystems. Were is the outrage for what is going on in these counties and how much damage is this having on our coastal ecosystem? The oceans of the world today are nothing more than a cesspool. The problem is much larger than shutting down a small Wild Caught Fishing Industries in the North Atlantic. When we buy farm raised (seafood) we are contributing to the problem.
A proud son of Gloucester
Kevin McCarthy
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There’s a small marina near my mom’s place in Florida, and in the past we’d stop in after the charter boats came because there was often extra fish to be sold– usually kingfish. But the charterboat captains said that the state had been cracking down on them– they don’t want them doing this any longer.
In addition to decimating the livelihoods of local fisherman, by importing our fish, we don’t really know what we’re getting. As the article below points out, fish fraud is rampant, in grocery stores and restaurants.
http://www.livescience.com/27325-fish-frequently-mislabeled.html
Unless you can see the whole fish, including the head, you don’t know for sure what you’re eating. And if you end up with esoclar instead of tuna, you can get quite sick.
Two summers ago I saw a documentary about the impact of the commercial fishing industry and on local fishermen. As it was presented in the film, the commercial outfits are favored by the regulators, and when they abuse the fisheries the locals pay the price by having *their* limits reduced. i don’t recall the name of the film but there was a guy there from The Herring Alliance who said they are trying to fight this.
I see a parallel here with what’s happening with agriculture. The bigs (Cargill, ADM etc) have been driving the smaller farmers out. They want total control of what’s on the dinner plate.
There’s got to be a group in Cape Ann that’s raising awareness and fighting this politically– does anyone know of one?
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I don’t think there is a good restaurant anywhere that would not rather sell fresh local seasfoot than frozen. Unfortunately, in many areas the local fishermen are gone. In those places, they have no choice but to buy frozen unless they can find a wholsaler close enough to buy frest. We are lucky on the central east coast in that we live betweeo Canaveral Inlet and Sebastian Inlet and there are commercial fishermen in both places. We have good fish markets and excellent restaurants.
As for the bigs driving the small commerciall men out of the market, that has been going on since the foreign fleets were probibeted from our waters. A few big fleets have grown much bigger and much of that growth has been on the back of the little guy.;
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Jetty’s right next door is far better than this chain. Florida grouper and other local fish always on the menu, with a great deck overlooking the Jupiter lighthouse.
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I agree Jetty’s is a great place and yes they do feature locale seafood.I eat there when I can get in
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