• Blog

    Faux Food Safety Scare At The Heart Of Lobbying Effort

    At the same time the Obama Administration is working to curb the influence of narrow special interests, American catfish producers are busy telling fish tales to Congress to get their competition regu...

  • Press Release

    Seafood Veteran Joins NFI As Sustainability Leader

    Washington, DC December 1, 2009 The National Fisheries Institute (NFI) is expanding its staff of experts with the addition of Ron Rogness as leader of its sustainability efforts. Rogness body of wor...

  • Health Blog

    grilled salmon with lime butter sauce

    Mmm, Thanksgiving was tasty this year. My mom-in-law made a full turkey and fixings spread on Thursday, and then my mom made runzas (meat and cabbage filled rolls) on Friday. We were on the ranch, ...

  • Health Blog

    Mexican-style sea bass

    My love affair with leftovers is at its annual height around Thanksgiving. Opening up the fridge the day after the feast and putting together the perfect turkey, mashed potatoes, and cranberry sa...

  • Health Blog

    blackened catfish

    I am in Texas now through the week after Thanksgiving. Cooking with and for my family here is always a blast - I love introducing them to foods they don't normally make and seeing their positive ...

  • Health Blog

    shrimp fajitas

    This week I am in Omaha, NE unexpectedly for my beloved grandfather's wake and funeral, which were absolutely beautiful. Because Thanksgiving is just a week away and then I have a trip back to th...

  • Health Blog

    Fish sandwiches

    Twice this week I've found myself out and about running errands around lunchtime, and twice this week I've opted for fish sandwiches at delis - the smoked fish sandwich from Uahi Island Grill...

  • Health Blog

    Chinese-style red snapper

    My parents-in-law are in town this week and treated us to a Veteran's Day lunch at Alan Wong's Pineapple Room. I got the "Chinese Style" Long-Tailed Red Snapper, which means steamed and served in...

  • Consumer Protection Press Release

    NOAA And The EC Take Aim At IUU Fishing

    November 12, 2009 Washington, DC - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the European Commission (EC) have signed an agreement to implement new rules that require wild capture...

  • Health Blog

    Will The News Media Get it Right This Time on Fish and Mercury?

    A couple of hours ago, the Environmental Protection Agency published something called the National Lake Fish TissueStudy, a "national screening-level survey of chemical residues in fish tissue from la...

  • Health Blog

    Safe Harbor: Marketing or Misinformation? (Part II)

    If you'll remember it was just this month last year that we blogged about Safe Harbor Certified Seafood and how its website features an attack on canned tuna that employs overt exaggeration and blatan...

  • Health Blog

    Quick Question For Jeremy Piven

    Are you serious? The professional actor and whiner who once claimed he got mercury poising from eating sushi, a claim that would make him the only person in America to have ever come down with such t...

  • Health Blog

    Pasta with diced tomato and zucchini

    As you may have noticed, I rarely reference cookbooks for my seafood recipes. I find cookbooks irresistible, and can be spotted in bed at night flipping through them as my husband reads a David M...

  • Health Blog

    Middle Eastern tuna salad with pita

    Knowing that I would be grazing on a variety of Halloween-themed party food for dinner Saturday night, I made sure to eat a healthy and filling lunch. I tried a recipe created by Nancy Piho, auth...

  • Health Blog

    Crispy jerk salmon

    Happy Halloween weekend! I have been concerned for years that I might one day turn in to that dreary lady who hands out apples to trick-or-treaters. And yesterday I actually had a passing though...