Category Archives: Marine Stewardship Council

Seafood Expo North America 2019

Posted on 17 March 2019 by Ret Talbot

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 →

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EcoWatch’s List of Seafood to Avoid Falls Short

Posted on 6 May 2015 by Ret Talbot

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 →

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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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The Mercury-Laden Fish Floated for School Lunches

Posted on 24 June 2014 by Ret Talbot

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 →

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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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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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Redfish – Underutilized and Under-Appreciated

Posted on 11 May 2013 by Ret Talbot

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 →

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Two Icelandic Fisheries Being Assessed for MSC Certification

Posted on 29 April 2013 by Ret Talbot

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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