Proof-Variation7005 t1_j6v0siu wrote on February 2, 2023 at 2:00 AM

Reply to comment by fishythepete in What happened to the plastic straw law in Rhode Island? by GhostOpera406

The problem is: that isn’t true. Rhode Island accounts for 54% of squid harvested…..in the northeast United States. The ProJo ram with it because it’s the largest seafood haul from here by a large amount but California still exists.

fishythepete t1_j6v38w1 wrote on February 2, 2023 at 2:18 AM

I don’t think those numbers square up either, but I was definitely off.

For Longfin / Shortfin it looks like RI catches closer to 62% of the national total.

CA might fish a lot of market squid but it’s not going into Calamari.

https://dem.ri.gov/sites/g/files/xkgbur861/files/2022-08/AnnualRpt_2021.pdf

Longfin: In 2021, commercial landings totaled 23.4 million pounds, and were valued at $33.4 million, according to the NOAA Fisheries commercial fishing landings database.

Shortfin: In 2021, commercial landings of shortfin squid totaled 39 million pounds, and were valued at $19.6 million according to the NOAA Fisheries commercial fishing landings database.

Proof-Variation7005 t1_j6v4qoh wrote on February 2, 2023 at 2:29 AM

Even then, it’s not some local industry. It’s a thing that goes to China and back because of how labor intensive it is to cut it all up.

And that’s still skipping past that no other state has an official appetizer. Or that we’ve got multiple appetizers that are legitimately Kline of unique to here.

fishythepete t1_j6vohhz wrote on February 2, 2023 at 5:13 AM

>And that’s still skipping past that no other state has an official appetizer.

Yeah I spent so much time wondering if they could, I didn’t think if they should. You kind of got me here.

Proof-Variation7005 t1_j6woamj wrote on February 2, 2023 at 12:42 PM

It’s one thing if this type of bill is “a bunch of school kids learning how government works so they meet a state rep and draft a bill and get to testify about how the state dinosaur should be a Triceratops because they are cool” and then we go through the whole schoolhouse rock thing.

But, no children were involved in this process. At least not literal ones.