About Seafood

May 6, 2013 Washington, DC Fed up with environmental and eco-lifestyle activists issuing phony warnings about eating fish, the National Fisheries Institute (NFI) launched a new microsite to correct ...

Like clowns out of a VW Bug, a ridiculous parade of celebrities, quack TV doctors, and fringe environmental activists have been insisting for years that eating seafood is dangerous.Peoples brains and ...

Serious doctors dont tell patients to pop silver bullet weight loss pills, endure juice detoxes and take all-natural extracts to melt their fat. Theyd be putting their medical practice and their medi...

Disgusted with environmental and eco-lifestyle activists scaring you with phony warnings about mercury in seafood? So are we.Thats why the National Fisheries Institute launched a new platform The Tru...

This recipe caught my eye because it has five ingredients. I was able to gather all the ingredients, chop the garlic (I used fresh), season the fish (I used cod because we had it in the freezer), and ...

Last week was crazy! Since I didn't have time to get to the supermarket, I wasnt sure which MyPlate recipe I was going to make. Then, I remembered a meal suggestion from Food Networks Melissa dArabi...

When it was so sunny and warm the other day that I needed to dress Harris like this for a walk, it officially feels like summer in South Carolina. This tilapia and squash mealfrom the MyPlate Fish ...

Canned tuna is one of the most affordable and available sources of omega-3s in the American diet. There are two primary types of canned tuna- white (also known as albacore) and light. White albacore t...

In addition to delivering about 20 grams of protein for around 150 calories per serving, seafood is among the only natural sources of special omega-3s called DHA and EPA. DHA is a building block of br...

Rhetoric:Man-made air pollution and mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants end up in the ocean and taint our supply of commercial seafood. Reality:Regardless of pollution, commercially cau...

Rhetoric:Eating too much fish can cause mercury poisoning.   Reality:The World Health Organization estimates that “a billion people rely on fish as their main source of animal proteins.â...

Rhetoric:Larger fish like albacore (white) tuna used in canned tuna are major sources of methylmercury in the diet. Everyone, but especially children, should stop eating canned albacore tuna and cons...

Rhetoric: Pregnant and breastfeeding women need to be careful about eating seafood because the trace amounts of mercury found in almost all seafood is also a known neurotoxin that could result in neu...

Rhetoric: The risks of methylmercury far surpass the health benefits of consuming even the minimum recommended amount of fish. Reality:“It is striking how much greater both the amount of the evi...

WASHINGTON, DC April 25, 2013 Bill Shinbane loved his family, his employees and the seafood community. He saw potential in innovation, products and people. He used that vision to turn a small fish wh...