Why do we call them "seafood"?

You know that is a really good question. One that I have wondered about a bit myself. I really do think that it is one of those things that it is that because it always was that. There are a lot of things in this world that really do not make sense when you think about it. However, it does stick with everyone, except for the occasional person who brings up the lack of logic behind the situation. It is just one of those things that everyone accepts. So yeah, not all seafood is not caught from the seas. However, it is really just something that is commonly accepted all things considered. I think that there are many things that just fall into use, despite their lack of accuracy. So many terms in life have gotten into use this way. When they stick, they stick. In the end, seafood is just one of those terms that have gone into this direction.

Hi there, Majority of the fish and other edible food are from the sea because seas comprises a bigger percentage of the Earth's surface compared to rivers and lakes. Most waterways eventually find their way to the sea, in a sense, they also belong to there. However, for the sake of accuracy one has to invent a name for edible matters form the different water forms such as creeks, rivers, lakes, ponds, marsh, mangroves, swamps, etc. No one has attempted it yet although local dialects has their own generic names for such and "seafood" is not of them. Take a look at "starfish." It is not a fish but another kind of marine citizen. Some realized the mistake and have begun to call them "sea stars" (I learned that from Lemuel Alfeche, a marine biologist, on one of our Natural Resource Mapping activities on the offshores of Linamon, Lanao del Norte." Sea stars, sea snakes, sea crocodiles, river snakes, creek snakes... it should give us some thought about their names.

Because it's a level of classification that is too detailed for most people. Because the term seafood works, even if it's not completely accurate in all cases. Because a lot of people probably wouldn't know the exact body of water every fish comes from, so they wouldn't know which fish to call riverfood or lakefood or whatever. Because as generalized and inaccurate as the term may be, it works. For your average person, there's no reason not to use the word seafood as an all encompassing word for "edible things that reside in bodies of water". Basically we do it because there's no compelling reason to change.

Because we are talking about fish in general and not specific things. So when we talk about fish in general we are thinking about the sea because most of them are in the sea. That's why they're called seafood!

Yes that true. Actually people who doesn't know the classification they still consider them seafood even though it wasn't