About Seafood

I usually point to the benefits of eating fish and shellfish for the insides of our bodies - brain function, heart health, prevention of dreary diseases like macular degeneration. But today I'm going ...

Association between 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and cognitive performance in middle-aged and older European men
Authors: David M. Lee, et al.
Journal: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery an...

In the past I have written that environmental activist groups like Oceana, "continue to operate in that gray area between skillfully under informing and blatantly misinforming." It would appear that f...

May 26, 2009 Washington, DC The Better Seafood Board (BSB) is bringing together half a dozen government regulatory offices as part of an effort to educate officials and find solutions to the problem ...

I'm relaxed and rejuvenated after an absolutely lovely weekend in Tahoe, CA. The rocky peaks in contrast to the sparkling waterfalls and lake actually reminded me a little of the Hawaiian mountains a...

The Preventable Causes of Death in the United States: Comparative Risk Assessment of Dietary, Lifestyle, and Metabolic Risk Factors
Authors: Goodarz Danaei, et al.
Harvard School of Publi...

Hooray for a three-day weekend that is especially meaningful for our little military family. Last year, we visited the Arlington National Cemetery, and this year we are thinking about going to the Na...

So, today Greenpeace is firing up its well oiled PR machine and releasing yet another set of seafood sustainability retailer rankings, this time in Canada. Surely it will tell a recycled tale of woe a...

May 21, 2009 Washington Smoking is responsible for about 467,000 deaths every year, physical inactivity is responsible for about 191,000 deaths and low omega-3 (seafood) intake is responsible for abo...

May 20, 2009 Washington, DC A Virginia mans 63 month federal prison sentence, for his role in a conspiracy that fraudulently labeled and sold pangasius in the United States, is evidence that fish fra...

Many of my lunches are dictated by the spare ingredients we have in the fridge. Today, there was close to a full head of chopped cabbage leftover from garnish for tacos we made the other day. So I sa...

Just as I was saying I missed my family two weeks ago on my birthday, I found out I would be taking a last-minute trip to my home state of Texas for work. The Legislature is considering an unsettling...

Sometimes silence is golden and other times it's deafening. While fashion blogs call Vogue's seafood article "yellow journalism," industry scribes explore the fashion mags missteps and main stream me...

May 18, 2009 Washington, D.C. - The National Fisheries Institute (NFI) is urging American women and consumers to ignore the demonstrably false and distorted information about seafood consumption and m...

May 12, 2009
Ms. Abigail Walch
Vogue Magazine
VIA Email Dear Ms. Walch: An article published in the May issue [Mercury Rising, Bronwyn Garrity] contains several outright falsehoods...