From today's Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...-2005Jan9.html

Moving Off the Docks
Technology Transforms Once-Parochial Seafood Business Into Global Enterprise
By Dina ElBoghdady
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 10, 2005; Page E01

Kurt Friesland keeps an eye on the computer and an ear to the phone inside
a damp concrete warehouse where he buys and sells fish for seafood
distributor J.J. McDonnell & Co. in Jessup. [...]

Today, salmon is the third-most-popular seafood of U.S. consumers, behind
shrimp and canned tuna, the National Fisheries Institute's most recent data show.
[...]

AND

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...lmon_0105.html
(slide show)

Coming to America: One Salmon's Journey:
How an Atlantic salmon raised in an isolated area of Scotland made its
way to a grocery store in Sterling last month.

Follows the chain of custody and costs: first person in the chain paid US$1.95
per pound; supermarket retail: US$12.99 per pound






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