An ongoing fight over sustainable seafood is really a fight between old vs. new conservation. That's why the latest brouhaha over the Marine Stewardship Council is interesting. One side is building the green economy, while the other side calls foul over greenwashing. Show More Summary
Walmart plans to source 100% of its fish from Marine Stewardship Council by 2010– but they’re no where near their goal, and their self-imposed deadline is the end of 2011. Something smells fishy.
photo: Mr. T in DC via flickr
A bit of a sustainable seafood smackdown is ongoing: In a new opinion piece in the journal Nature scientists from the University of British Columbia, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and other institutions have called out the Marine Stewardship Council for not doing a good job at marine stewardship. Show More Summary
When big corporations make pledges to improve their sourcing practices, it's important to hold them accountable. After all, it's easy to hold a press conference pledging a new green policy; it's not so easy to fulfill the pledge. This was one of the action points in an article in the journal Oryx that I reviewed for [...]
A sushi bar serving sustainable seafood and fish in Paris, a visit to Matsuri with chef David Lebovitz author of The Sweet Life in Paris.
This is the fourth installment of "On the Hook," a five-part series focused on how consumers can help further the sustainable seafood movement. For more posts in this series, see here, here and here.
Guides to sustainable seafood selection are becoming as plentiful as fish in the sea. Show More Summary
This is the third installment of "On the Hook," a five-part series focused on how consumers can help further the sustainable seafood movement. For more posts in this series, see here and here.
The Ross Sea, a deep bay off Antarctica's...Show More Summary
Sustainable, dirt cheap, simple to prepare, low in fat, high in protein, and filled to the brim with vitamin B12, mussels could be the perfect seafood. Served as part of Lidia Bastianich's Mussels in Spicy Tomato Sauce, there's no doubt about it. It's the fanciest 15-minute meal you'll ever make.
You've seen them everywhere: little accordion-folded wallet cards designed to help seafood lovers select the most sustainable fish when at the market or out at...
In my segment on GMA Health, I give you information and tools to show you how, like me, if you choose to eat seafood, you can make the sustainable choice.
Sustainable seafood is a hot topic these days, not only thanks to the Gulf oil spill, but also because we’ve made a habit of overfishing our oceans. The result of this live-for-today mentality is a significant decline in fish stocks in species such as tuna, shark and whale. And when you add a 40% drop in [...]
Could there be more stirring words for a sustainable seafood person? I'm off to Tokyo to look for shared goals with people who catch and sell a lot of bluefin tuna. And a trip to Tsukiji Market, Grand Central Station for fish. All fish roads lead to Tokyo, I guess.
This is the second installment of "On the Hook," a five-part series focused on how consumers can help further the sustainable seafood movement. For more posts in this series, see here.
Navigating the seafood selection at stores and restaurants can be almost as murky as the briny deep itself. Show More Summary
Learn all about sustainable seafood from Luxbar's new executive chef or get excited for Lolla at Landmark's Winopalooza.
Lynne Rossetto Kasper is the creator of July's Seafood Watch Sustainable Seafood Recipe: Sicilian Sweet-and-Sour Seared Tuna. She's a respected authority on food and has published three bestselling books including The Splendid Table®'s How to Eat Supper with Sally Swift....
Washington SeaSA, my little venture buying sustainable seafood direct from fishermen for a group of about 10 families in DC, is now in year two. Latest on the menu: sockeye salmon from Bill Webber, who fishes the flats off the Copper River in Alaska. Show More Summary
Michael Cimarusti is a chef who says no to bluefin, and thinks you should do the same. And even fast-food buyers might (might) be saying no to overfishing.
Yum! Brands - Los Angeles - McDonald - Wall Street Journal - Michael Cimarus...
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Unless you're paying zero attention to sustainable seafood, you're aware of the plight of bluefin tuna. These apex predators are being fished to the brink of extinction. Ocean has teamed up with Entourage and Alter Eco star Adrian Grenier to get the word out to more seafood lovers that bluefin needs to come off the menu. Show More Summary
Image via Blue Ocean Institute
FishPhone has been around for years. It's a way to text a question about seafood to the Blue Ocean Institute to find out what options are sustainable, all while you're standing in the store isle. But the...Show More Summary
Loblaw Companies, Canada’s largest food distributor, is making a splash for sustainable seafood.
In a bold marketing move, Loblaw’s has begun displaying empty fish trays at seafood counters where at-risk fish were once displayed. (Pictured...Show More Summary