“Do you have any questions?” he says to me, and yeah, actually, I do. I’ve asked the nice gal that works at Seattle Fish Company about the Chilean sea bass before and she assured me it was sustainable, but I couldn’t bring myself to buy it. So I ask again.
We get to talking, the fish guy and I, and he introduces himself. His name is Paul and he owns the market. I tell him how I’ve been writing about fish, shopping for and eating fish, for a while now. About my homework around buying fish for my plate, how I’ve talked to the conservation guys at the aquariums and oh, yeah, now I remember, I talked to the fancy organic market buyers too. Paul asks me when I’ve last had Chilean sea bass and honestly, I can’t remember. “Today might be the day, ” he says.