About Seafood

Here's the latest on our contacts with the Chicago Tribune. I wrote to the Standards Editor Margaret Holt last week to make sure she had received my pervious emails and was aware of my continued reque...

Still no word from the Chicago Tribune on our multiple requests for a review of Michael Hawthorne's latest story about mercury in seafood, so let's continue to look at some of his previous work. Back...

This is, at first blush, completely unrelated to seafood. But I am going to make it about seafood. I just found out (courtesy of our wedding photographer's blog) about the most entertaining littl...

September 10, 2008 Washington, DC A study just released in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition finds moms who eat more fish, as well as moms who breastfeed the longest, have babies with better...

Associations of maternal fish intake during pregnancy and breastfeeding duration with attainment of developmental milestones in early childhood: a study from the Danish National Birth Cohort
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While we wait for the Chicago Tribune to answer our requests for a review of Michael Hawthorne's latest story about mercury in seafood let's take a look at some of his previous work. It's been three ...

I am ridiculously out of food and making a beeline for the grocery store after work, but made it through the weekend thanks to (leftover) fish stew from the freezer. Dinner Friday night was a mug-...

Last night CBS's 60 Minutes revisited a story it first aired in January about bluefin sushi tuna. Even before that, way back in October of 2007 the National Fisheries Institute joined the U.S. Congres...

Today's lunch was another variation on macaroni and cheese - this time with tuna and mixed veggies. Macaroni and cheese has got to be one of the most fail-proof disguises for healthy foods like f...

September 5, 2008 Washington, DC It is time for regulators to adopt a minimum size requirement for Spiny Lobsters harvested from the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and the South Atlantic, according to th...

First of all let's start things off on the right foot. My name is Gavin and I am here to be a resource to you. Despite what you may have read or heard from environmental extremists the seafood communi...

I read a review today of Starbuck's new breakfast offerings (apparently the previously-offered hot sandwiches overpowered the coffee smell) and got to thinking that I've never posted a single fish for...

We heard back from the Chicago Tribune last night. Take a look at what they wrote: Mr. Gibbons: Michael Hawthorne and I have gone over your letter at length and reviewed the concerns you raised. I f...

I am not a history buff. In fact, my history knowledge is borderline embarrassing. But I think I have just found a piece of the past I could sink my teeth into - the history of sushi. Author Trevor Co...

On the first day this blog went live I wrote that we "hope to change the dialog that often accompanies stories about seafood. It's no longer about whether we like or agree with a story. It's about whe...