About Seafood

Sunday night through most of Monday I travelled an unnecessarily high amount of hours from Hawaii to San Francisco to Klamath Falls, Oregon to Portland to Seattle.The three stops were due to a cancel...

Today Im in beautiful Kirkland, WA outside of Seattle for a meeting of the National Fisheries Institute executive committee. Yesterday we went on a breathtaking boat ride on Lake Washington to a dinne...

July 14, 2011 Washington, DC Fully rebuilt, U.S. fisheries hold the potential of adding $31 billion to the economy and an additional 500,000 jobs, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad...

Sunday night I got around to making Mark Bittmans tortilla-chip-crusted calamari with chili-yogurt sauce from this scrumptious Seafood Made Light article.It was a little challenging finding the calama...

Friday night Lloyd and I went to dinner and a movie, both of which were out of our comfort zone but paid off in the end. Dinner was at Sunrise Restaurant a true hole-in-the-wall. Were all about no-fr...

Late yesterday, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) published its Nature's Redlist of Threatened Species (full report here). In that report, the authors claimed that a majority o...

When my in-laws were here last week, we got a mouthwatering take-out spread from India Caf, and Ive been inspired by Indian flavors ever since. Unfortunately, I havent invested in many of the signatur...

This is not the first time, in reference to a community of extremists, I have noted a quote often attributed to Albert Einstein. It goes something like this, The definition of insanity is doing the sa...

We spent the Fourth of July weekend with Lloyds family on the Kona side of the Big Island. I love Kona for so many reasons the black lava rocky coastlines, the cozy mountain coffee farms, the abunda...

In December 2009, Edward Groth approached the National Fisheries Institute (NFI) in the hope that NFI would hire Groth Consulting Services.Groth wrote in a letter to NFI President John Connelly, Im ho...

Tuesday night I co-hosted a baby shower for my fabulous friend Sarah. Sarah, her husband Luke, and their five-year-old daughter Elena will be welcoming a lucky new baby in November. Sarah is one of th...

The USDAs comment period on proposed catfish regulation has closed and many a journalist is combing through the submissions, sifting through the repetitious rhetoric shoveled onto the record by myriad...

July 1, 2011 Washington, DC Adding to a coalition that already makes up nearly 70 percent of the imported Blue Swimming Crab market in the U.S., the NFI Crab Council announced yet another company has...

My parents-in-law are coming in to town tomorrow through the Fourth of July weekend to welcome Lloyd home from Afghanistan. We also have a handful of backed-up birthdays and other holidays to celebrat...

We love our bi-weekly Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) box.If you dont enjoy cooking greens (kale/chard/collards) you might not be such a fan, though, because we get two overflowing bags per box....