About Seafood

Last Tuesday I got on a plane in balmy Honolulu and (some minor delays and a red-eye later) got off in icy Washington, DC. I'm back for work - one of four trips I'll make this year to attend meetings...

I must first say I have beenpleased with the state of reporting on seafood lately. Not because I agree with it all but because when charged with reporting the facts, free of surreptitious agendas, the...

No the Ventura County Star isn't the Washington Post or the Wall Street Journal-but it still has standards... or should. Take for instance its latest unsigned editorial. The 600+ word opinion piece t...

It wasn't two weeks ago that I was scolding the Economist for a seafood sustainability story that relied on erroneous environmental activist data (not my opinion, mind you, just a fact.) But this week...

Let me start by saying, while I am sure he wishes it did, Michael Hawthorne's latest article on mercury has nothing to do with fish... or seafood... or even water for that matter. It has to do with co...

I'm finally ALL moved in to my new kitchen. I spent a good third of my weekend in there, organizing, cooking, and sometimes just staring at the stocked fridge and pantry with appreciation. Before ...

Hawaii is really close to Japan. This is something I tend to forget because it feels very much like America here. But we are on a tiny island, just a stone's throw away from Asia. I was reminded of t...

Lloyd and I spent Saturday of our three-day weekend exploring the North Shore of Oahu. Friday was rainy and windy, and even though Saturday was perfectly beautiful, the waves were still in storm mode....

We have an address! It's been a while since Lloyd and I have had a real, stand alone address, but tomorrow we're getting the key for the beautiful unit we'll be calling home here in Hawaii. We were o...

A day after the FDA released an exhaustive, peer-reviewed, draft report analyzing the state of seafood science over the past 5 years that demonstrates just how much the benefits of eating seafood outw...

It's been a couple days since I first opened my Inbox after my wedding time off, and I'm happy to report that my outstanding emails are now in the single digits. I'm actually happy to be back - my sc...

Actor Jeremy Piven is in full damage control mode. Ever since his wacky mercury poisoning "diagnosis" and subsequent flight from Broadway he's been laying low-recuperating... except when there are awa...

FDA has posted on the agency's websitean updated guidance on acceptable market names for seafood and an updated, searchable Seafood List. The guidance document is intended to provide guidance to indus...

Happy 2009 and aloha! A lot has happened in the last couple weeks. I've welcomed a new year, a new husband, and a new home (Oahu, Hawaii) in to my life! It's all been overwhelmingly wonderful, and no ...

Perhaps The Economist isn't a paper you read regularly... at the risk of having a Sara Palin / Katie Couric moment I'll admit I've let my Economist subscription laps. Thankfully Stetson Tinkham, our d...