About Seafood

Michael Taylor is a nationally recognized food safety expert whose appointment as Senior Advisor to the Commissioner at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is applauded by the National Fisheries In...

Washington, DC - July 6, 2009 - The National Fisheries Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to education about seafood safety, sustainability, and nutrition, issued an open letter to the new...

WASHINGTON, D.C. June 1, 2009 If Greenpeace remains a creature of habit, rather than responsible actor, it will unveil a third set of retailer rankings this summer that grade U.S. grocery stores bas...

May 26, 2009 Washington, DC The Better Seafood Board (BSB) is bringing together half a dozen government regulatory offices as part of an effort to educate officials and find solutions to the problem ...

May 21, 2009 Washington Smoking is responsible for about 467,000 deaths every year, physical inactivity is responsible for about 191,000 deaths and low omega-3 (seafood) intake is responsible for abo...

May 20, 2009 Washington, DC A Virginia mans 63 month federal prison sentence, for his role in a conspiracy that fraudulently labeled and sold pangasius in the United States, is evidence that fish fra...

May 18, 2009 Washington, D.C. - The National Fisheries Institute (NFI) is urging American women and consumers to ignore the demonstrably false and distorted information about seafood consumption and m...

April 22, 2009 Washington Consumers interested in shopping for seafood often dont realize they probably already buy sustainably managed fish. Worldwide focus on sustainability has highlighted the su...

April 2, 2009 Washington, DC In a letter to seafood importers the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) says, as of April first companies must be in full compliance with its regulatory requirements,...

March 20, 2009 Washington, DC A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released today finds the Food and Drug Administrations (FDA) work to combat fraud in the seafood industry lacking. The r...

March 18, 2009 Dear Retailers, Some of you have undoubtedly already received letters from Greenpeace announcing its intention to, once again, publish a seafood sustainability retailer ranking list. Yo...

March 11, 2009 Washington, DC For the second time in three years, a California court has refused to require mercury warnings in conjunction with the sale of canned tuna. The state attorney general's ...

March 4, 2009 Washington, DC In a letter to the Better Seafood Bureaus (BSB) secretary, Lisa Weddig, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) makes the agencys policy on the use of the name white rough...

March 3, 2009 Washington A review of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 by the National Fisheries Institute (NFI) finds a bipartisan endeavor that appears committed to progressive thinking ...

February 26, 2009 Washington, DC The Better Seafood Bureau (BSB) has made its case for economic integrity to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). BSB secretary Lisa Weddig testified before the FDA...