About Seafood

Jeremy Piven is out talkin' mercury poisoning again and, as usual, with shovel in hand he's diggin'. This time Piven goes into his ignorant song and dance about only eating fish for 23 years and how h...

A recent segment on Good Morning America featured nutrition information so off-base (no fruit after dinner!?) that the president of the American Dietetic Association herself spoke out. The root of th...

Remember a while back when actor Jeremy Piven bailed out on his Broadway contract and then claimed he had mercury poising from eating sushi? But he hadn't quite done his research for that role because...

The rain hasn't started yet, but the movie-watching has. Over the weekend we saw two (very different) movies, Julie & Julia and The Hurt Locker. I liked both a lot, and maybe they do have something in...

Dietary fish and meat intake and dementia in Latin America, China, and India: a 10/66 Dementia Research Group population-based study
Authors: Emiliano Albanese, et al.
Journal: The Americ...

High Levels of Depressive Symptoms in Pregnancy with Low Omega-3 Fatty Acid Intake From Fish
Authors: Jean Golding, et al.
Journal: Journal of Epidemiology, July 2009
Summary: Depr...

I've been obsessed with Zonya's salmon burgers for a while now, and have made them so many times that looking up the actual recipe became unnecessary months ago. The next logical step for me after me...

August 7, 2009 Washington, DC - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is renewing its commitment to crack down on food companies that break the law, a pledge that is earning the agency's new chief pr...

Really? No not really. But for months if not years NBC News has relied on an erroneous statistic that suggested the oceans would be empty of fish by 2048. A statistic that was in error, an error tha...

I could do without the pun-y title, but Rachel Ray's "My-oh-Mahi! That's a Good Fish Taco" recipe probably does deserve the use of an explanation point. It's really great. Sometimes fish tacos are a ...

So the concert at the aquarium last Thursday evening had no fish, other than the live ones of course. Since my week was turning out to be pretty skimpy on seafood, I made sure to make my favorite tem...

In 2006 marine ecologist Boris Worm of Dalhousie University suggested that the oceans would be empty of fish by 2048. His prediction made for good sound bite science and the media ran with it. The pro...

Washington, DC - July 31, 2009 - In 2006 marine ecologist Boris Worm of Dalhousie University suggested that the oceans would be empty of fish by 2048. His prediction made for good sound bite science a...

I wasn't feeling the best yesterday, at least not feeling well enough to cook. OK, maybe I just wanted to watch Top Chef Masters in peace. Whatever the excuse, the fish tacos I had planned didn't com...

At the first sign of even minimal apprehension about the state of any fish stock many environmental extremists go right to the only page they know in the Henny Penny playbook and scream-collapse. Som...