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Tag Archives: aquaculture
Maine is Running Out of Lobster Bait. Is Farmed Salmon the Answer?
The following is an excerpt from my most recent piece in National Geographic. Click here to read the full story. ROCKLAND, MAINE – People love lobster. For some, it’s nostalgic, eliciting memories of bygone days and summers in Maine. For … Continue reading
Posted in Aquaculture, Fishing Industry, Lobster Fishery, Maine Fisheries, Northeast Fisheries
Tagged aquaculture, bait, fish farm, herring, lobster, RAS, Salmon
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Fish Farming – Defying Conventional Wisdom
Each year I walk away from the Seafood Expo North America (SENA15) with a personal take-home point—something that, in addition to influencing my professional career as a writer, I can adopt in my personal life as a consumer. As I … Continue reading
Posted in Aquaculture
Tagged Alaska salmon, aquaculture, farmed salmon, farmed versus wild dish, fish farming, free-drifting fish culture system, Kampachi Farms, Neil Sims, open-ocean mariculture, Seafood Expo North America, SENA15, wild Bristol Bay salmon, wild Copper River salmon, wild salmon
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Celebrating Previously Frozen Farmed Fish
Well here’s a headline I never thought I’d write: “Celebrating Previously Frozen Farmed Fish.” But I just did, and now I need to explain myself. I live in Maine, a state where it’s not infrequent to see the bumper sticker … Continue reading
“Buy the Change” – Seafood Consumption Advice for 2015 from Maryn McKenna
Maryn McKenna of National Geographic’s “The Plate” served up her New Year’s resolutions in a 2 January blog post titled “Buy the Change You Want to See in the World.” Generally speaking, I agree whole-heartedly with McKenna that taking action on … Continue reading
Posted in Aquaculture, Chef's Collaborative, Human Health, Maine Fisheries, Massachusetts, Mercury, Northeast Fisheries, Overfishing, South America
Tagged aquaculture, Chef's Collaborative Trash Fish dinner, david taylor, dogfish, Greene Prairie Shrimp, Gulf of Maine Research Institute, healthy seafood, Maryn McKenna, mercury in seafood, National Geographic's The Plate, Out of the Blue, roger williams university, shrimp farming, Sky 8 Shrimp, sustainable seafood, trash fish, Tropical Aquaculture Products
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Seafood Expo North America 2014 Wrap-Up
The Boston Convention Center, with its more than 500,000 square feet of cavernous exhibit space, was recently home to the 2014 Seafood Expo North America (#SENA14). It was the Northeast’s largest convention center playing host to the largest seafood industry … Continue reading
Posted in Aquaculture, Fishery Improvement Projects (FIP), Groundfishing, Legislation, Litigation, Northeast Fisheries, Overfishing
Tagged #sena14, aquaculture, Boston Convention Center, future of seafood industry, imported seafood, IUU Fishing, Seafood Expo North America, seafood trade deficit, sustainability, traceability
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No “Green Economy” without a “Blue Economy”
“The importance of capture fisheries and aquaculture cannot be neglected. They provide over 3 billion people with about 15 percent of their average per capita intake of animal protein. And these two activities contribute over 200 million jobs globally,” said … Continue reading
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