Sustainable Seafood

Thomas Keller Has a Responsibility -- To Set the Record Straight

Fedele Bauccio | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Locavore Restaurants, Celebrity Chefs, Thomas Keller, Sustainable Food, Climate Change, Sustainable Seafood, Food News
Fedele Bauccio

Chefs have an enormous power to make a difference, and they can do so without sacrificing flavor. If chefs ignore climate change, those oysters Thomas Keller and I both love will disappear from our warming oceans.

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Plenty of Fish in the Sea?

Heather Tierney | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: u.s. Overfishing, China Growth, Fish Exports, Climate Change, Sustainable Seafood, Overfishing, Fisheries, Overfishing Oceans, Seafood, Food News
Heather Tierney

The main culprit of fish depletion is still that we consume more fish than nature can replenish. In the end, it is only government and legislators that can help mitigate the problem.

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Sustainable Seafood: Which Retailers Topped the List? (INFOGRAPHIC)

Laura DiMugno | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Green, Food, Sustainability, Oceans, Sustainable Seafood, Sustainable Food, Biodiversity, Seafood, Fish, Greenpeace, Green News
Laura DiMugno

Finding sustainable seafood has long been a challenge for environmentalists and foodies alike. Recently, however, supermarkets and food stores have stepped up their efforts to reconcile that dilemma.

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Markets Graded On Sustainable Seafood

Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Supermarket Seafood, Sustainable Seafood Markets, Video, Sustainable Seafood Retailers, Greenpeace Supermarket Rankings, Food, Ocean Health, Sustainable Seafood, Oceans, Greenpeace Seafood Study, Greenpeace Seafood, Seafood, Green News

Before the next trip to your local supermarket's seafood counter, you may want to consider where the store's fish came from. Greenpeace released it...

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Saving the Oceans to Feed the World: What San Francisco Needs to Know

Andrew Sharpless | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Sustainable Seafood, San Francisco Restaurants, Sustainable Food, Sustainable Seafood San Francisco, Sustainable Eating, Seafood, San Francisco News
Andrew Sharpless

When it comes to sustainable seafood, San Francisco gets it. As a progressive, seaside town, seafood is plentiful and the options for eating sustainably are constantly improving.

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Whole Foods Market Bans 'Red'-Coded Seafood

Carl Safina | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Seafood Sustainability, Red-Listed Seafood, Sustainable Food, Saving the Ocean, Harpoon-Caught, Blue Ocean Institute, Marine Stewardship Council, Sustainable Seafood, Seafood, Whole Foods Seafood, Red List Seafood, Whole Foods, Green News
Carl Safina

Starting on Earth Day (April 22), Whole Foods won't be selling any more red-rated seafood. They'll be the first (and so far only, but we hope that will change) national grocer to do so.

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Whole Foods To Stop Unsustainable Seafood Sales

AP | MICHAEL HILL | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Whole Foods, Whole Foods Sustainable Seafood, Red Label Seafood, Wild Seafood, Whole Foods Seafood, Seafood Ratings, Sustainable Seafood, Earth Day, Seafood, Video, Food News

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Whole Foods Market said Friday that it will stop selling fish caught from depleted waters or through ecologically damaging methods, a ...

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Maryland Crab Considered For Sustainable Certification

AP | ALEX DOMINGUEZ | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Blue Crab, Sustainability, Sustainable Seafood, Crab Fishing, Crab, Maryland Crab, Maryland, Food News

BALTIMORE -- Deciding among the crab offerings at the supermarket can be daunting. Jumbo lump, backfin or claw? Chesapeake, Gulf or Indonesian? Compe...

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Mullet: Horrible Haircut, Great Sustainable Fish

Daniel Klein | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Ed Chiles, Daniel Klein, Bottarga, Anthony Manalli, Perennial Plate, Florida, Sustainable Seafood, Roe, Mullet, Food News
Daniel Klein

There are two types of mullet in Florida: One is a hair style made popular in the nineties, the other is a type of fish. We chose to focus on the latter (sorry, but it's super sustainable and really healthy).

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So Will That Be the Wild or Patented Salmon?

Peter Hanlon | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Pebble Mine, Salmon, Genetically Modified Food, Sustainable Seafood, Fish, Fda, Alaska Salmon, Genetically-Engineered-Fish, Bristol Bay Salmon, Genetically Modified Salmon, Green News
Peter Hanlon

It looks like 2012 will be the year of two salmons: one a genetically altered "Frankenfish" currently under review by the FDA, and the other an inhabitant of one of the world's last great wild salmon runs.

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WATCH: The Story Of Sushi, Told Using Hand-Crafted Miniatures

Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Story of Sushi, Video, Sushi Miniatures, Sushi, Sustainable Seafood, Overfishing, Sustainable Sushi, Miniatures, Food News

The Story Of Sushi, a short film created for Bamboo Sushi restaurant in Portland, Oregon, has a pretty depressing take on the state of the world's sus...

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What If Eating Sustainable Seafood Doesn't Matter?

Time | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Josh Ozersky, Sustainable Seafood, Slavoj Zizek, Sustainable Seafood Myth, Eating Sustainable Seafood, Seafood, Food News

The first thing you need to know about Slavoj Zizek, the world’s most influential philosopher who is still alive, is that he is crazy. You can’t u...

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Protecting Our Oceans - Key to Sustainability

Aron Cramer | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Seafood, Oceans, Green News
Aron Cramer

What happens in our oceans does not stay in our oceans.

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The Great Chicago Shuck 'N Suck Oyster Porn

Jeff Kelly Lowenstein | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: George Motz, Amy Kantrowitz, Great Chicago Shuck 'N Suck Oyster Porn, Food Film Festival, Oysters, Food Films, Sustainable Seafood, Food Porn, Chicago News
Jeff Kelly Lowenstein

Before Saturday night I had never watched animated tuna fish cans fornicate, received a gift bag of doggie treats drawn from the leftovers of homemade beer, and eaten low country South Carolina oysters.

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Rebuilding Fisheries: There's an App for That

Mike Sweeney | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: The Nature Conservancy, Sustainable Seafood, Environmentalists, Ipad, Fishermen, Ecatch, Green News
Mike Sweeney

Enter eCatch, a new app developed by The Nature Conservancy and fishermen that lets them load their catch data at sea and have real time access to the latest information on where the fish are -- the ones they want to catch and the ones they need to avoid.

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Target To Sell 100% Sustainable Fish By 2015

Posted 12.13.2011

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Target has announced that it will sell only sustainable seafood by 2015, reports the Los Angeles Times. The fish will also be traceable, though execut...

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Blue Water Grill: The Back Story on a Los Angeles Favorite

Mary Hall | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Monterey Bay Seafood Watch, LA Restaurants, Sustainable Seafood, Blue Water Grill, Jim Ulcickas, Chilean Sea Bass, Lobster, Atlantic Swordfish, Los Angeles News
Mary Hall

The Blue Water Grill has been a favorite of mine because of their delicious seafood. However, I had no idea how committed the restaurant was to fresh seafood until I attended their "Sustainable Seafood Summit."

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America's 10 Most Consumed Types Of Seafood

Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Top 10 Seafood, Top 10 Most Consumed Seafood, Slidepollajax, Sustainable Seafood, National Fisheries Institute, Most Consumed Seafood, Seafood, Food News

The National Fisheries Institute just released its list of the most consumed types of seafood in the U.S. for 2010. There are some obvious choices (sa...

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Enjoying Oysters and Saving Sea Life

Paul McRandle | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Oysters, Sustainable Seafood, Local Food, Food News
Paul McRandle

Whoever said "it was a brave man who first ate an oyster" was a fool. From the salty suck of the brine to the oceanic tang of the flesh, oy...

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A Boat-to-Table Initiative Brings Fish To Chefs

NYTimes.com | JOAN NATHAN | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Fresh Fish, Seafood Industry, Fish, Fish Industry, Sustainable Seafood, Trace and Trust, Boat to Table, Seafood, Food News

Sea gulls and cormorants circled overhead in the early morning fog as the Block Island ferry blew its horn in the distance....

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PHOTOS: Fish Options You Might Not Know About

The Daily Meal | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Home Cooking, Sustainable Seafood, Sustainable Food, Cooking, Seafood, Sustainable, Fish, Slidepollajax, Food News
The Daily Meal

Deciding what to make for dinner can become either a stressful or repetitive process depending on what you want to do: feel like experimenting with so...

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The Sustainable Seafood Myth

Brendan Smith | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Ocean Acidification, Climate Change, Oceans, Sustainable Fishing, Climate Change Seafood, Sustainable Seafood, Food News
Brendan Smith

Put down your fork -- Whole Foods is not telling you the whole story. The dirty little secret of their seafood rating system is that it ignores the largest and most imminent threat to our oceans: greenhouse-gas emissions.

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Why There's No Such Thing As Sustainable Seafood

Grist | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Sustainability, Seafood Watch, Climate Change, Whole Foods, Sustainable Seafood, Sustainable Fish, Overfishing, Food News

Stroll by any Whole Foods seafood counter and you will see color-coded fish: Green for fully sustainable, yellow for partially sustainable, and red fo...

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Summer's Coolest Culinary Trend: Invasive Species

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Invasive Species, Food & Water Watch, Sustainable Seafood, Seafood, Food News
Leslie Hatfield

There are many cases of invasive species wreaking havoc. Eating them would not only mitigate harm, but actively improve the "invaded" ecosystem. Is it possible to fish and market and eat our way out of a situation we've fished and marketed and eaten our way into?

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Love Seafood? Make Sure It's Sustainable

| Sarah Henry | Posted 09.11.2011

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This post comes to us courtesy of KQED's Bay Area Bites. By Sarah Henry Up until a couple of recent events, I'd almost given up consuming seafoo...

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