Similarly, local fishmongers no longer go to the port at sunset to meet fleets of incoming fishermen for a round of haggling over the choicest catch. Distribution is a global enterprise and most former denizens of the deep arrive by air. Just ask Julee Harman, who was on her way to med school when she started going to fish markets and stumbled into the blackened redfish craze. The catch may be light and she may have only 100 pounds of fish to fill 200 pounds of orders. The fish may get bumped off the flight in favor of Mother's Day flowers.
Quality depends on several factors.
Harman prefers fish caught on hook lines because they arrive in better shape than those caught in nets. She also cuts the fish to order. I don't really feel like I'm selling stuff. It's more like I'm helping out. You can't farm partridges.