About Seafood

October 29, 2015 – Washington, DC – For the second year in a row, Americans are eating more seafood. Health conscious consumers appear to be helping reverse a trend that saw seafood consu...

A recent article from Newsweek by Melania Juntti [11 Foods You Should Never Feed Your Kids] recklessly includes canned tuna among foods parents should not feed their children. This is not only wron...

The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a Washington-based environmental lobbying organization, claims its mission is “to see that Americans get straight facts, unfiltered and unspun.” But EWG does...

How many times can Greenpeace recycle the same old publicity stunts before they finally exhaust the gullibility of the news media?  That seems to be the wager behind the global fundraising organizati...

There I was... looking inside my fridge at lunch today. Leftover hemp seed tabbouleh with cucumber, tomatoes and parsley. Leftover quinoa made with currants and pumpkin seeds. So, I did any hungry per...

September 29, 2015 (WASHINGTON) – The National Fisheries Institute’s (NFI) Crab Council is being recognized by the U.N. Global Compact for its industry-led sustainability programs. Through...

Are you wondering why you should attend the Global Seafood Market Conference in January? Watch this video and it’ll answer some… tough… questions ...

Over at the New York Times, Jim Windolf astutely notes that the American media has a corrosive habit of fomenting hysteria over nonexistent health threats, and that we’d probably be better off tunin...

September 22, 2015 Washington, DC – The National Fisheries Institute’s (NFI) Crab Council has added new member, Lawrence Street Seafood Co. Inc, expanding their roster of sustainably-minded crab i...

More than a year after the Food and Drug Administration definitively called out Consumer Reports for its feckless and dangerous misinformation on tuna, the group continues to peddle the same pseudo-sc...

A word of warning to reporters who might have come across a press release promoting a little-known study that purports to look at the benefits and risks associated with eating fish. The study claims i...

Cod and corn. These two c's make a chowder-licious soup. Lately, I have been on a kick to try new recipes. Maybe it's because the mornings are slightly cooler and the sky is been a little graye...

September 1, 2015 Madelyn Fernstrom Health & Nutrition Editor Today.com Dear Ms. Fernstrom, Today.com’s recent article Eating fish 2-3 times a week is recommended: What about ever...

...

We spend a lot of time in this blog calling out journalists for getting things wrong. And let’s be honest there’s no shortage of agenda-driven reporters who endorse hyperbole and half-truths as st...