Seafood in Oregon

Did you know that 90% of the seafood sold and consumed on the Oregon Coast is not from Oregon waters?

Oregon seafood - it’s diverse, abundant, fresh, sustainable, and it’s delicious. Yet most of the seafood served on our beautiful coastline is not from our waters, and most don’t even know it. From rockfish, to lingcod, sablefish, halibut, dungeness crab, clams, pink shrimp, and so many others, these fish often skip our local restaurants and get loaded onto ships and planes that fly to various other domestic or international markets. Even if consuming species that are local to the Oregon Coast, there’s a high chance it’s been flown in from another region, passing the planes that are flying out with our local fish.

This not only seems incredibly backwards when it comes to traceability, lowering carbon footprints of food transport, but it’s also creating a lot of economic leakage within our coastal communities.

The why…