US Fish Industry Control

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> Probably all high quality fresh Salmon is sold by special contract

at very

> high prices and never gets to any USA supermarket!

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> Lorenzo

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You have that exactly right! The best salmon are without question

purchased directly by Japanese corporations. The companies have

their own private rep's standing right there grading & assuring the

quality of the fish they have paid a premium for.

 

They usually take first & second quality, trying to argue that the

fish is a #2 fish, with the intent to re-grade it #1 once it is in

their actual possession. Once again the money factor! *sigh*

 

You have no idea how many battles I have had with Japanese men over

the grading of fish. Highly humiliating to them since I am a woman &

I will not back down. Sorry, but client fish grader was not paying

my salary, thus the company he worked for was not going to rip off

the company I worked for.

 

A little ironic when the " American " company's I worked for would in

actuality be owned/controled by the Japanese, yet I had to fight

tooth & nail against their brethren Japanese clients. It is ALL

multinational stuff.

 

Truth is the American fish industry is TOTALLY controlled by the

Japanese anyway. Whether is be salmon, catfish, crab, what ever.

Yep, the price of those Texas shrimp & Louisiana catfish is

ultimately controlled by the Japanese. Has been for a couple of

decades.

 

You'd be surprised how much of the pie they also control when it

comes to cattle, feed, meat packing...Frozen foods...

 

ConAgra, Swanson, Armour (Armor? the hot dog people LOL), all

Japanese owned. Follow the paper trail!!!

 

With my background in the fish industry it is little wonder that a

slaughter market buyer for Armour meats taught me how to buy

slaughter cows even though I was with a competing company. I always

just assumed someone higher up told him to, & that there was

intention by some Manager somewhere to later hire me down the road

after I learned the ropes at some other company's expense.

 

 

Vache