The seafood dining experience has taken a turn in the tides. Now diners can actually see where their food came from thanks to a program that allows people to track their lobster dinner back to the place it came from and the fisherman who caught it.
A tagging system called Thisfish started in British Columbia with fish and expanded to lobster in the East Coast this past winter as a pilot project with the Canadian Council for Professional Fish Harvesters and the Maritime Fishermen's Union.
"The pilot project is getting tremendous feedback — absolutely tremendous feedback," said Ruth Inniss, Atlantic co-ordinator for Thisfish and employee of the Maritimes Fishermen's Union.
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