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Another Reason to Avoid Farmed Salmon

By Ang Jordan | Published: February 1, 2012
NPR’s The Salt blogs on a new report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists that the overfishing of jack mackerel (which is used to feed farmed salmon) in the south Pacific is depleting populations at an unsustainable rate. “At the current rate of overfishing, the world’s stock of jack mackerel, which is largely located [...]
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Gulf Seafood Safety Still a Concern

By Ang Jordan | Published: September 5, 2010
Via the Gulf Restoration Network comes this post at the Natural Resources Defense Council, Gulf Shrimp Testing: Is a Dozen Samples in 5000 Square Miles Enough to Reassure You? Gina Solomon writes, Today, NOAA reopened 5,130 square miles of Gulf waters to shrimping and fishing. I took a look at the data on which NOAA [...]
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Escapee from a Crab Boil?

By Ang Jordan | Published: September 3, 2010
This lively crab turned up in our yard this afternoon. Since we don’t live near the water I can only assume he was an escapee from a crab boil in the neighborhood (perhaps assisted by a sympathetic child?). When I tried to catch him he reared into a defensive posture and I could hear his [...]
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Seafood Testing Could Last for Decades

By Ang Jordan | Published: May 19, 2010
I’m not a reader of USA Today, but today this headline caught my eye: Seafood testing from Gulf oil disaster could last decades. Oil is hard to get rid of; it can stay in the environment for an extremely long time, and because all parts of the food chain will be affected, the potential cumulative [...]
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More on Unsustainable Fisheries

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 9, 2009
At Culinate, links to three articles about overfishing and aquaculture.
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Aquacalypse Now: The End of Fish

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 9, 2009
My brother-in-law sent me this link to a piece in The New Republic by Daniel Pauly, a marine ecologist who questions the current definition of any sustainable fishery, comparing the “management” of fisheries to this point in history to a Madoff-like Ponzi scheme. He writes, “eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be [...]
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Sustainable Seafood?

By Ang Jordan | Published: May 3, 2009
All You Can Eat? A Journey Through a Seafood Fantasy is an excellent article by Jim Carrier in the March/April issue of Orion. This revealing look at the history and current state of the shrimping industry features snippets of conversations with Leslie Hartman, Alabama shrimp biologist working in Mobile Bay, and Mike and Joe Skinner, [...]
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ELC Day 10: Lessons Learned – Carry Cash, and Don’t Forget the Cooler

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 10, 2008
We returned from our visit to my parents’ late Wednesday, so my eat local challenge started in earnest yesterday. A rather dismal start it was. I had some apples left from Indiana, and had one for my breakfast. Lunch was homemade bread. Jimmy Lowe’s was out of goat’s milk, so the only thing I picked [...]
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Amid Collapsing Fisheries and Factory-Farmed Salmon, How to Choose Sustainable Seafood

By Ang Jordan | Published: August 17, 2008
Via the Organic Consumers Association, a link to Grist’s Checkout Line blog, addressing a question on “sustainable fish choices”:http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/8/14/93128/6887?source=food. Lots of good links and guidelines, though as always there is no definitive answer to this very tricky question.
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Swimming in Greenpeace’s Seafood Report

By Ang Jordan | Published: August 11, 2008
Via Culinate, a link to “Swimming in Greenpeace’s Seafood Report”:http://blog.washingtonpost.com/mighty-appetite/2008/06/swimming_in_greenpeaces_seafoo.html in the ??Washington Post?? food blog ??A Mighty Appetite??, where Kim O’Donnel reviews the Greenpeace report “Carting Away the Oceans: How Grocery Stores Are Emptying the Seas”:http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/oceans/seafood/. The report is aimed at evaluating commercial buying practices and takes a look at U.S. grocery stores. None [...]
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