Where Gulf seafood comes from and how it's harvested is becoming less of a mystery.
A new seafood tracking program called Gulf Seafood Trace has been put in place this year in response to the 2010 BP oil spill that scared many people about eating Gulf seafood.
The program tracks Gulf seafood through traceability software that local seafood processors can register to use. It was created after the oil spill by the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission.
“We received money from Congress to reestablish the perception of the industry,” said Alex Miller, commission economic program coordinator. “We hired a number of contractors to put this program in place.”
The commission had 10 participants help test the system before it was launched at the Boston seafood show in March. Since then, 45 companies between the Florida Keys and Texas are enrolled with millions of pounds of seafood already being tracked.
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