Category Archives: Ecolabels

What about the ‘S’ Word? – Seafood Sustainability Today

Posted on 19 March 2015 by Ret Talbot

If you’ve been following my coverage of this year’s Seafood Expo North America (SENA15), you know I found it noteworthy how many times I heard speakers presenting in the “Seafood Sustainability” conference track speaking about the word “sustainable” in a less than … Continue reading →

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Sustainability Is Not a Club

Posted on 17 March 2015 by Ret Talbot

Those in the seafood industry furthest along the path to sustainability must never become the elite. Sustainability is not a club one joins. It is not an award one wins or a crown one wears. Sustainability must be nothing more and nothing … Continue reading →

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Why Giving away Dogfish at the Food Pantry May be a Bad Idea

Posted on 8 December 2014 by Ret Talbot

If you visited the Falmouth Service Center’s food pantry last week, you may have been offered a fillet of spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias). Brenda Swain, the service center’s director, says they have “been working really hard on nutrition,” and she’s thrilled … Continue reading →

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Part II of the Sustainably Minded Aquarist Published

Posted on 18 November 2014 by Ret Talbot

Part II in my ten-part series titled “The Sustainably Minded Marine Aquarist” is out at Advanced Aquarist Online Magazine. In it, I discuss why sustainably minded aquarists will go out of their way to source animals from the smaller developing island … Continue reading →

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The Sustainably Minded Aquarist Part I – Wild Animals (Excerpt)

Posted on 5 November 2014 by Ret Talbot

While covering the marine aquarium trade at the intersection of science and sustainability, I’m frequently asked what the sustainably minded aquarist should do. Over the next ten weeks, I’m going to try to answer that question as best I’m able … Continue reading →

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Is sustainable seafood still sustainable if you throw it away?

Posted on 18 March 2014 by Ret Talbot

“[We] need to internally point fingers at ourselves…” -Michael Tlusty, Director of Research New England Aquarium A comprehensive analysis of what it means to purchase sustainable seafood may well lead to some surprising and perhaps uncomfortable conclusions. Data I saw … Continue reading →

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Is Ecolabeled Seafood Healthy Seafood?

Posted on 15 March 2014 by Ret Talbot

I’ve been writing some about mercury in seafood recently, which, a few of my readers have suggested, seems a little out of my wheelhouse. After all, the founding idea behind The Good Catch Blog is to focus on how species, … Continue reading →

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The Good, The Bad and the Wild

Posted on 8 October 2013 by Ret Talbot

For the past several years, I have had the opportunity to explore the source country side of the marine aquarium trade. One of the goals of those explorations has been to provide a window through which aquarists can view a … Continue reading →

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Trader Joe’s Unexpected Jump on Greenpeace’s Sustainable Seafood Scorecard

Posted on 29 May 2013 by Ret Talbot

Today Greenpeace released its 2013 Carting Away the Oceans (CATO) report, and Trader Joe’s earned unexpected accolades instead of insults from the non-governmental environmental organization. CATO is Greenpeace’s sustainable seafood ranking initiative, which it launched in 2008. Since its launch, only two … Continue reading →

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A Love-Hate Relationsgip with Edible QR Code Ecolabeling

Posted on 25 May 2013 by Ret Talbot

“We are growing faster than our projections. We have been record busy.” -Chef Ruiz of San Diego-based Harney Sushi The sushi is the best in San Diego and that’s probably not just because of the edible QR code tags. Nonetheless, … Continue reading →

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