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Canned Seafood

The most sustainable and one of the most delicious ways to eat fish

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Aug 31, 2023
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Two hundred years after Joseph Colin packed the first sardines into metal cans, in Nantes, France, in 1822, we still pack fish in cans in almost exactly the same way. 

Colin’s breakthrough was pure genius. Canning made fish portable, convenient and clean. The French and then the Portugese muscled in to the market and created major canning fish industries…

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