Calif. school district cuts costs with unwanted seafood

Monterey Peninsula Unified School District is cutting costs, and landfill waste, by serving a lesser known specifies of fish, the Pacific Grenadier, for lunch, kionrightnow.com reports.

The district joined a program called Bay2Tray, which brings “bycatch” fish—unintentionally caught species that are likely to be thrown away—from Monterey Bay into the schools.

Officials say they regularly run out of the fish during meal periods, an indication that the fish has been a hit with students.

"If it didn't taste good then we would have a lot of stuff either thrown away or staying in the kitchen and that's not the case,” MPUSD Superintendent P.K. Diffenbaugh told the website.

Check out the full story at kionrightnow.com.