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seafood

  ('fūd') pronunciation
n.

Edible fish or shellfish from the sea.


 
 

A general term to include crustaceans and shellfish, sometimes also fish.

 

Any edible fish or shellfish that comes from the sea.

 

Edible aquatic animals excluding mammals, but including both freshwater and ocean creatures. Seafood includes bony and cartilaginous fishes, crustaceans, mollusks, edible jellyfish, sea turtles, frogs, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers. The roe, or eggs, of some species are eaten as caviar. After cereals, seafood may be mankind's most important food, furnishing about 15% of the world's protein intake. Lean fish is equivalent to beef or poultry in its protein yield (18 – 25% by weight), but it is much lower in calories. Much seafood is eaten uncooked, either raw, dried, smoked, salted, pickled, or fermented. Otherwise it is cooked whole or cut into steaks, filets, or chunks. It is often used in stews or soups.

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Spaghetti with seafood (Spaghetti allo scoglio).
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Spaghetti with seafood (Spaghetti allo scoglio).
Fried fish and french fries from the fishette on Harbor drive in San Diego.
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Fried fish and french fries from the fishette on Harbor drive in San Diego.
Galician Mariscada
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Galician Mariscada

Seafood is any sea animal or seaweed that is served as food or is suitable for eating, particularly seawater animals, such as fish and shellfish (including mollusks and crustaceans). By extension, in North America although not generally in the United Kingdom, the term seafood is also applied to similar animals from fresh water and all edible aquatic animals are collectively referred to as seafood.

Edible seaweeds are rarely considered seafood, even though they come from seawater and are widely eaten around the world. See the category of sea vegetables.

The harvesting of seafood is known as fishing and the cultivation of seafood is known as aquaculture, mariculture, or simply fish farming.

Seafood is a source of protein in many diets around the world.

Predicted collapse

Main article: Overfishing

Research into population trends of various species of seafood is pointing to a global collapse of seafood species by 2048. Such a collapse would occur due to pollution and overfishing, threatening oceanic ecosystems, according to some researchers.[1]

A major international scientific study released in November 2006 in the journal Science found that about one-third of all fishing stocks worldwide have collapsed (with a collapse being defined as a decline to less than 10% of their maximum observed abundance), and that if current trends continue all fish stocks worldwide will collapse within fifty years.[2]

The FAO State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2004 report estimates that in 2003, of the main fish stocks or groups of resources for which assessment information is available, "approximately one-quarter were overexploited, depleted or recovering from depletion (16%, 7% and 1% respectively) and needed rebuilding."[3]

Organizations such as the National Fisheries Institute, however, disagree with such findings and assert that currently observed declines in fish population are due to natural fluctuations and that enhanced technologies will eventually alleviate whatever impact humanity is having on oceanic life.[4]

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Ingredients for a seaside Prawn Cocktail in Cartagena de Indias.
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Ingredients for a seaside Prawn Cocktail in Cartagena de Indias.

See also

References

  1. ^ World Seafood Supply Could Run Out by 2048 Researchers Warn boston.com. Retrieved February 6, 2007
  2. ^ "'Only 50 years left' for sea fish", BBC News. 2 November 2006.
  3. ^ "The Status of the Fishing Fleet," The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture: 2004.
  4. ^ Seafood Could Collapse by 2050, Experts Warn msnbc.com. Retrieved July 22, 2007

37. Robson, A. 2006. "Shellfish view of omega-3 and sustainable fisheries." Nature 444, 1002 Shellfish in NATURE

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Translations: Translations for: Seafood

Dansk (Danish)
n. - fisk, skaldyr, fiskemad, "alt godt fra havet"

Nederlands (Dutch)
eetbare zeevis, schelp-/ schaaldieren

Français (French)
n. - fruits de mer

Deutsch (German)
n. - Meeresfrüchte

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ψάρια και θαλασσινά

Italiano (Italian)
frutti di mare

Português (Portuguese)
n. - frutos do mar (m)

Русский (Russian)
морепродукты, дары моря

Español (Spanish)
n. - mariscos, pescado

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - skaldjur

中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
海产食品, 海味

中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 海產食品, 海味

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 해산 식품, (호모 상대로서의) 선원, 해산물

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 海産食品

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) كل سمكه أو محارة بحريه تؤكل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מאכלי-ים (דגים וכ')‬


 
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