On December 2014, President Obama made the very significant move of protecting one of America’s greatest cradles of marine life: the Bristol Bay. Through a Presidential Memorandum, Obama placed the area under indefinite protection from oil and gas drilling. As the Bristol Bay serves as one of the most precious aquatic resources in the world—providing about 40% of America’s seafood, accounting up to $2 billion in commercial fishing, and being home to many endangered species—the President deemed the bay “too special and too valuable to be auctioned to the highest bidder”, a remark that many owners of Monterey seafood restaurants would certainly agree with. Domenico’s very own Sam Mercurio ventures the Alaskan seas himself yearly to commercially fish for sustainable salmon in Bristol Bay. When certain species are tagged as “sustainable”, it means that they exist in populations large enough to continuously and naturally reproduce for future generations.
http://www.domenicosmonterey.com/blog/monterey-seafood-restaurants-and-sustainable-fishing-in-bristol-bay-11.htm
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