Alaska fish processors chase Japanese market for an unusual product — cod semen

Let’s get one thing out of the way right now: This is a story about cod semen and the people who love to eat it. Right now, fishing boats are pulling Pacific cod from the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska. Fisherman are allowed to catch up to 325,000 tons of cod this year. A lot of that cod will become fish sticks or batter-fried filets. But many processors in Alaska also remove the sperm sacs of male cod, a seafood product called cod milt. In Japan, a high-end market exists for cod milt, which goes by the unsettling literal name shirako, or “white children.” Read the rest here  15:25

One Response to Alaska fish processors chase Japanese market for an unusual product — cod semen

  1. StripedBassHole says:

    You’d be talking Milts there Capt…

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