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The Local Food Report
As we re-imagine our relationships to what we eat, Local Food Report creator Elspeth Hay takes us to the heart of the local food movement to talk with growers, harvesters, processors, cooks, policy makers and visionaries

Cusk: a Groundfish in Little Demand, Still in Decline

Elspeth Hay

You don't often see cusk in local fish markets. On the Local Food Report, Elspeth Hay learns about this unusual species of groundfish. She delves into where it lives, how it's caught, and why despite a lack of demand, cusk populations are still in decline.

Read more on Elspeth's blog, Diary of a Locavore. 

Elspeth Hay is the creator and host of the Local Food Report, a weekly feature that has aired on CAI since 2008, and the author of the forthcoming book, Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food. Deeply immersed in her own local-food system, she writes and reports for print, radio, and online media with a focus on food, the environment, and the people, places, and ideas that feed us. You can learn more about her work at elspethhay.com.