About Seafood

Net weight violations made the news again this time it was Ralphs, a major grocery chain in California, being charged by the LA City Attorneys office for short weighting consumers. Not just ice-glaze...

The Los Angeles City Attorneys Criminal Branch filed a multi-count criminal case against Ralphs Grocery Company, and its parent corporation the Kroger Company, after undercover inspections at 14 groce...

When Im really famished, theres rarely anything that sounds better than a tuna sandwich.Today I got up at 3am (9am EST) to listen the final webinar meeting of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee...

Robbie Franklin Smith, of Bimini, Commonwealth of the Bahamas, was sentenced in Fort Lauderdale District Court, for his role in the illegal importation of queen conch and spiny lobster from the Bahama...

Lloyd and I are moving this weekend and next weekend (we thought it would be easier to split in two) to a beachside cottage a town over. Our new place is fantastically located, right on the famed Kail...

In the PR game, one of the oldest news hooks in the book is to base a story on an upcoming holiday. While it's cheesy, it's also effective, and can help get even the most mundane story into print.Earl...

As everyone in the world seems to know, some fish stories are so good people can't help but tell them over and over again, and even borrow them from one another.A reminder of that phenomenon came out ...

The State of New York announced the results of a statewide investigation of the net weights of frozen seafood products as part of a 17-state investigation. New York reported that 11 percent of the sur...

The State of Wisconsin issued a press release with the findings with the states findings as part of the 17-state investigation of net weight of ice-glazed frozen seafood products. Inspectors found som...

The State of Alaska announces that they found zero violations of net weight labeling with the samples tested as part of the 17-state investigation of net weight of ice-glazed frozen seafood products....

Finally, the beautiful food we shared for Lloyds 30th birthday dinner.I chose the restaurant based on a super user-friendly guide called Top Maui Restaurants.It has a section called Ten Meals on Maui ...

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is an ecological and human disaster that will surely effect not only the fragile habitats where shrimp and oysters are harvested but the very core of the community ...

Some more on the Word is Out. A month after the NCWM release of results of the investigation by states looking at the weight of frozen seafood products we still see some press pick-up. The Chicago Tri...

We tend to have a limited view of fraud in the seafood industry:Intentionally packing short weight product by including the weight of the glaze as part of the net weight of the productSelling fish as ...

Time and time again we see local TV stations recycling the ole testing mercury in fish story. We have literally seen the same story in dozens of local markets across the country over the course of fiv...