About Seafood

April 24, 2008 Washington The nations leading food trade associations say an effort to have the United State Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspect and grade seafood would add costly bureaucracy an...

April 24, 2008 Washington Responding to allegations of mistreatment of workers and children at shrimp processing facilities in Thailand and Bangladesh, The National Fisheries Institute (NFI) affirme...

April 23, Washington The National Fisheries Institute (NFI) rejects any mistreatment of workers or other human rights abuses. Workers whether they be fishermen on the water, farmers at their ponds, ...

With an increasing number of Americans turning to seafood as part of a healthy diet, on this Earth Day, the evidence is clear that fisheries are answering the call for sustainability. The seafood comm...

A US tuna boat operating legally in the Pacific Ocean was vandalized at sea as part of a dangerous and irresponsible stunt perpetrated by Greenpeace activists. To pull along side another vessel at sea...

Today the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans heard testimony about illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and considered efforts to reduce the worldwide ...

Its happened again, this time in Houston. A Sunday March 30th report in the Houston Chronicle detailed yet another set of mercury tests done on bluefin tuna found in local sushi restaurants. The story...

New research
to be published in the April issue of the American Journal of
Epidemiology adds to the groundswell of new, independent science that
shows moms who eat more than the U.S....

The National Fisheries Institute advises local California news
outlets and any other news outlets around the United States that
erroneous claims about mercury in seafood by Got Mercury may...

A new study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
says the typical American diet, low in seafood, is deficient in omega-3
fatty acids and may pose a risk to babies develo...

The Joint Ocean Commission Initiative today released its annual U.S.
Ocean Policy Report Card, highlighting notable progress in state and
regional efforts at ocean policy reform and in eff...

Consumers with questions about seafood sustainability and safety now
need to look no further than National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administrations (NOAA) web site for answers. Today at the...

The National Fisheries Institute fully supports efforts to force
Exxon to pay the damages it owes as a result of 1989s Valdez oil spill. Alaskas fishing industry and the broader seafood communit...

In Sundays New York Times the papers ombudsman, Clark Hoyt,
reviewed three recent health stories and concluded that the Times
story on mercury in sushi tuna, required careful judgment and ...

The National Fisheries Institute is pleased to welcome James W.
Balsiger as the acting assistant administrator for NOAA's National
Marine Fisheries Service. In his new position Dr. Balsige...