About Seafood

I was so excited about what I had planned for dinner tonight - sesame-orange shrimp - that I made it for lunch. And I was right. It was heavenly, easily in the top 10 recipes of 2009. I used a trif...

Well, it's 12:38pm Hawaiian time, and I've been up since 3am. So I think that puts my bedtime right at about 6pm. Today I had so much to do toward getting caught up with my long-lost island life ...

The master manipulators at Greenpeace have been unfurling banners and vandalizing property for years in the name of raising their profile in the media and raising funds from their supporters. ...

This morning the CBS Early Show did a short segment with Dr. Jennifer Ashton that mentioned seafood and eating fish while pregnant. While Ashton came pretty close to getting the FDA advice on seafood ...

Over the past few days, we've been seeing sporadic reports about a study that was published by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that measured the amount of mercury found in the bodies of most Am...

Yesterday and today were my last two days in the Washington office before I head back to Hawaii in the morning. I have officially been "off-island" for 32 days, so I really cannot wait to get home....

I just returned from our annual National Fisheries Institute winter staff retreat, which involved two days and one night of reflecting on 2009 and planning for 2010 in the Bryce Mountain ...

I am on the last leg of my trip now. After spending time in the Midwest and the...Texas (it's a region unto itself), I am on the east coast. I'm spending the week in Washington for work and then ...

Just a quick note for you all this morning. For starters if you are not familiar with Arthur Allen let's make one thing clear right off the bat-he is no hack. He has a track record of being fair and g...

Let's start from the beginning. Vietnam represents an important market for U.S. soybeans. U.S. soybean and soybean meal exports to Vietnam totaled nearly $100 million in 2008 and are on the rise. U.S....

Let's start from the beginning. Vietnam represents an important market for U.S. soybeans. U.S. soybean and soybean meal exports to Vietnam totaled nearly $100 million in 2008 and are on the rise. U.S....

In case you didn't know anti-competition lobbyists representing American catfish farmers are working hard to have a Vietnamese fish called pangasius banned from this country and that spells trouble fo...

On Thursday CNN ran a story about imported shrimp from Thailand that was really just a rehash of an old AFL-CIO report about suspected labor abuses. There was nothing new about the report or about the...

My mom - who is not exactly an enthusiastic fish eater, but who is an avid bargain hunter - noticed several species of seafood on sale for $7.99/lb at our local grocery store earlier this wee...

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...