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Sustainability Blog
Are Massachusetts Fishermen Being Targeted for Eco-Terror?
We saw some disturbing news come out of Plymouth, Massachusetts this week. The Boston Herald reported that 12 commercial fishing boats were vandalized with spray painted anti-fishing messages.While no...
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Trade & Commerce Blog
So many times we see main stream news media getting the story about seafood wrong. And now it appears the researchers and, for the most part, contestants on a new Fox game show have a better base ...
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Health Blog
Consumer Reports Repeats Its Same Old Canned Tuna Scare Story
This Holiday season it would appear Consumer Reports is re-gifting. Remember back in 2006 it did a story about mercury in canned tuna? Well, its latest scare story on canned tuna is simply a retread o...
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Health Blog
Got Mercury? Targets America’s Poorest at the Holidays
Our position on Got Mercury? has always been pretty clear: its misleading and misguided crusade is not designed to help consumers but simply to cause them to eliminate fish from their diet because of ...
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Blog
Lets start with a question. How do you produce a story about seafood from overseas, yet never leave the U.S.? I ask that because that is just what NBC reporter Jeff Rossen and producer Robert Powell d...
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Blog
On this mornings edition of the Today Show, reporter Jeff Rossen and producer Robert Powell appear to have willfully ignored evidence that imported seafood is safe.Ignoring the FactsThe National Fishe...
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Blog
Catfish Farmers Caustic Crusade
It was two weeks ago that I blogged in defense of domestic catfish producers. I noted that a pointed allegation, published in Seafood Source, designed to smear the industry should have been attributed...
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Health Blog
How Tuna Helped Keep Chile’s Trapped Miners Alive
Over the past few days, the world has been riveted as each of the 33 miners who have been trapped underground in Chile since Augusthas made it to the surface. It's an incredible story, and one where c...
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Health Blog
Got Embarrassingly Misguided Advice and Rhetoric?
The kids over at GotMercury? have taken their thoroughly middle school science fair like research and crafted some new suggestions for consumers. Are you ready for them?Dont eat swordfish or tuna.And ...
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Blog
Theres an old saying about opinions and everybody having one thats not fit to print but the reality is opinions are important and so are opinion pieces like the one that ran Monday in Seafood Source t...