How a Small Japanese Fishing Region Quietly Rewired America's Appetite for Premium Seafood
In the years following the pandemic, something unexpected happened in high-end seafood markets across US coastal cities: diners started asking harder questions about where their fish actually came from. The answer, in more cases than you might expect, traced back to a single prefecture on Japan's southwestern coast. This is the story of how Nagasaki's fishing renaissance reached American restaurant tables.