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Category Archives: Marine Stewardship Council
Seafood Expo North America 2019
Today is the first day of Seafood Expo North America 2019 (SENA19), and I’m headed to Boston for the show. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, it is largest seafood exposition in North America with thousands of buyers and … Continue reading
EcoWatch’s List of Seafood to Avoid Falls Short
EcoWatch, the Ohio-based environmental website, posted its list of “16 Popular Seafood Choices You Should Avoid Eating” today. Unfortunately, these types of posts are generally little more than regurgitated information that gloss over the details in an effort to generate online … Continue reading
Posted in Human Health, Maine Fisheries, Marine Stewardship Council, Northeast Fisheries, Overfishing
Tagged Caviar, cod, EcoWatch, Eel, Halibut, lobster, Mahi Mahi, Marlin, National Geographic Seafood Decision Guide, Octopus, Orange Roughy, Salmon, seafood watch, Shark, Shrimp, Snapper, squid, sustainable seafood, Swordfish, tuna
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What about the ‘S’ Word? – Seafood Sustainability Today
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
Sustainability Is Not a Club
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
The Mercury-Laden Fish Floated for School Lunches
For quite some time, I’ve been working on a story regarding a small species of shark called dogfish. What started as a piece profiling some fish species the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI) was featuring as abundant, underutilized and under-appreciated … Continue reading
Posted in Groundfishing, Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI), Human Health, Legislation, Maine Fisheries, Marine Stewardship Council, Mercury, Northeast Fisheries
Tagged dave taylor, discover magazine, environmental policy, EPA, fda, mercury, national school lunch program, Northeast groundfish fishery, nutrition, seafood labeling, section 32 commodity purchase, spiny dogfish, trash fish, usda
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Is Ecolabeled Seafood Healthy Seafood?
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
Trader Joe’s Unexpected Jump on Greenpeace’s Sustainable Seafood Scorecard
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
A Love-Hate Relationsgip with Edible QR Code Ecolabeling
“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
Posted in Ecolabels, Marine Stewardship Council, Northeast Fisheries
Tagged Aquaculture Stewardship Council, Brian Clark Howard, Chef ruiz, ecolabel, edible QR code, FishWatch, greenwashing, Harney Sushi, Marine Stewardship Council, National Geographic Ocean Views, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, noaa, sustainable seafood, Under the Label: Sustainable Seafood, walmart sustainable seafood
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Redfish – Underutilized and Under-Appreciated
Yesterday I visited the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI) in Portland, Maine to learn more about their sustainable seafood program and specifically the GMRI seafood branding program. Stay tuned for more on that program in the coming weeks, but … Continue reading
Two Icelandic Fisheries Being Assessed for MSC Certification
If Iceland Sustainable Fisheries (ISF) gets its wish, two Icelandic fisheries will be certified as sustainable and well-managed fisheries by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) and will be eligible to carry the MSC ecolabel by the end of the year. We … Continue reading
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