About Seafood

Theres been a bit of breathless reporting on the new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on what the FDA needs to do to improve oversight of imported seafood. In many cases the headlines rep...

From a past encounter with the New York Times, one that ended with a correction from the Times and a rebuke by the papers ombudsman, we know that the Old Grey Lady aint what she used to be. But Im not...

After years of confusion about eating seafood during pregnancy, a respected and knowledgeable nutrition voice is helping to clear the air.In an article for the Huffington Post, Dr. Andrew Weil, founde...

In this mornings USA Today the paper reports on Greenpeaces flawed and oft ignored retailer rankings. But whats caught my eye about the piece is not what they write but who is writing. It would appear...

The gall of NFI not being afraid of Greenpeace. How dare NFI not cower in the corner at the specter of teenage volunteers clad in rainbow gear disagreeing with us, while their fearless captains sit f...

Greenpeaces retailer rankings have grown into a groundhog day of sorts and have led consumers to, by in large, simply ignore them. Likewise, despite the new stance by Greenpeace that has the group lau...

Are journalists trending towards facts over fear in their stories about Japan and seafood? If the Associated Press is any bell weather that may be the case. APs Q and A includes this:Q. Will ocean cre...

Theres been a lot of hand wringing in the media lately about seafood from Japan. You know, the seafood t hat makes up a total of less than 1 tenth of 1 percent of the seafood we eat in the United Stat...

The Albacore tuna caught by the U.S. troll & pole fleet are migratory warm water fish. They journey widely across the Northern Pacific Ocean following patterns of warm water and feed. Ten years of tag...

The Orlando Sentinel has an article about species substitution today. No matter how you pretty it up its plain and simple fish fraud, a fact NFI members have known for years and have been working on t...