About Seafood

October 27, 2014 Washington, DC The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released the results of a two year investigation into seafood labeling that found 85 percent of the seafood it tested was pro...

October 24, 2014 Washington, DC The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched a new online learning module designed to help groups including state regulators ensure the proper labeling of seafoo...

October 23, 2014 WASHINGTON, DC The countrys largest seafood trade association produces its 100th video blog, a channel where viewers can keep up with the latest news from the seafood community in ...

This Op-Ed was published in Forbes on 9/19/14:   GUEST POST WRITTEN BY Gavin Gibbons Mr. Gibbons is vice president of the National Fisheries Institute. Next week, the Environmental Pro...

This Op-Ed was published in Forbes on 9/19/14:The Activist-Led Panic Against Mercury In Fish Is Harming The AmericanDiet GUEST POST WRITTEN BY Gavin Gibbons Mr. Gibbons is vice president of the Nation...

Is it Groundhog Day? 'Cause it sure feels like it. Consumer Reports (CR) is at it again with its typical anti-tuna rhetoric. In CRs latest tuna tale, they attempt to spook children. Thankfully, parent...

Stacey Naggiar,
Associate Producer, Health
Health & Medicine VIA EMAIL Dear Ms. Naggiar, I am writing to address fundamental editorial problems with your online article, Pregnant and Poor...

The professional fearmonger, anti-vaccination-conspiracy-theory-pusher, and all-around activist shop that is the Environmental Working Group (EWG) is out today with another addition to their collectio...

When Albany, Georgia's WALB news director Dawn Hobby asked, for the third time, for NFI to indicate what we perceived to be factual errors in their fundamentally flawed seafood report, we suspected th...

A little bit summer, a little bit fall. That's the season that last night's Salmon Pasta w/ Olives and Kale evoked.After seeing a recipe for Seared Salmon with Olives, Rosemary and Potatoes in the Sep...

August 28, 2014 Michele Gershberg
Editor, Health & Pharma News
Reuters VIA EMAIL Dear Ms. Gershberg, I am writing to express great concerns about your online article, Fishery mislabeling c...

August 28, 2014 David Callaway Editor in Chief USA Today Dear Mr. Callaway, I was disappointed to find numerous, troubling issues associated with Linda Lombrosos article Pregnant women should not eat...

A recent Consumer Reports article on tuna goes against the vast and continuously growing body of peer-reviewed research on the positive effects of seafood consumption on health. Despite our repeate...

Washington Post wonkblog writer Roberto A. Ferdman continues to write about canned tuna and continues to leave holes in his stories big enough to drive a truck through. This time he writes; Despite Co...

While Consumer Reports gives bad advice to pregnant women about tuna consumption the FDA says consumers should not fixate on mercury:"The Consumer Reports analysis is limited in that it focuses exclus...