About Seafood

September 17, 2009 Washington, DC The United Kingdoms Food Standards Agency (FSA) has released its latest advice about eating fish, which takes sustainability in to account while keeping the core mes...

I am world-renowned for my ability to get dangerously lost when driving, but my condition has been in check for the past few years thanks to GPS. Unfortunately, yesterday I had a relapse on the way t...

I'm sure none of you missed the New York Time's attempt at covering seafood last week, a hack job that took aim at New Zealand Hoki. But what you might have missed is the next chapter-you see, it used...

Anchovies may very well be the single most divisive food item. Last night was my parents last evening in Hawaii, which we wanted to spend with a low-key dinner in, so we made a variety of pizzas from...

While biologists work on their assessment of the Alaska pollock stocks it is important to keep in mind a few facts. Since 1977 the U.S. has overseen Alaska pollock and made it a model of fisheries man...

September 16, 2009 Washington Last year, as part of a fundraising campaign, Greenpeace announced Alaska Pollock stocks had collapsed. This was simply not true and government scientists publicly refu...

Today I woke up with a tiny knot in my stomach, knowing that it's my parents' last full day in Hawaii. After a fabulous week packed with the very best activities this state has to offer, they're takin...

Yesterday I took the afternoon off to join my parents on the Hole-In-The-Wall Hawaii Food Tour - a exploration of what half a dozen of the best ethnic restaurants in downtown Honolulu have to offer. ...

Two weeks ago The Economist was taking unsubstantiated pot shots at seafood and ended up printing a letter from NFI after we exposed its shoddy reporting. This week it's back on the watery warpath tak...

In case you missed it, this morning the foodies over at the Washington Post posted this blog about "Spanish mackerel" that missed the mark and we let the editors know exactly where it went wrong. Inte...

This morning the foodies over at the Washington Post posted this blog about "Spanish mackerel" that missed the mark. So we gave the editors a heads up. Have a look at our letter below: September 9, 2...

A little more than a week ago we told you, in excruciating detail, how badly The Economist had botched its reporting on the USGS report on mercury in non-commercial recreational fish. Well, this week ...

It's time to add another activist group to the list of organizations that are trying to sensationalize the recent USGS report on sport-caught fish in order to scare the public out of buying seafood: P...

To celebrate our lack of a Monday morning this week, we had a fun dinner party Sunday night. Our impromptu menu included the following: -Grilled Clams in the Shell with Serrano Ham -Penne with S...

Labor Day 2009 is having quite a powerful pull on my workload - I woke up this morning to find our server is down at the office, which makes working almost impossible. The Federal day of rest apparen...