Category Archives: seafood

KidSafe Seafood

By Ang Jordan | Published: April 1, 2008
Via “Mothering Magazine”:http://www.mothering.com/articles/growing_child/food/fish-facts-for-families.html, “KidSafe Seafood”:http://www.kidsafeseafood.org/, an informational web site about kids and seafood consumption; they have a “handy chart”:http://www.kidsafeseafood.org/bestchoices_otherkindsoffish.php identifying key toxins found in a variety of commonly eaten fish and shellfish, and the number of servings children of different ages may safely eat each month. Farmed crawfish are listed as one of the approved [...]
Also posted in health issues, web sites | Leave a comment

Alabama Oyster Beds Decimated

By Ang Jordan | Published: March 9, 2008
If you’re like my husband and consider one of the major benefits of living on the Gulf Coast to be the oysters, you’ll be distressed by the report that “Alabama’s oyster reefs are just about dead.” Sunday’s ??Press-Register?? reports that the two-year drought conditions upstate have resulted in decreased freshwater from rivers flowing into Mobile [...]
Posted in seafood | Leave a comment

Fish: What You Need to Know

By Ang Jordan | Published: November 15, 2007
Living on the Gulf Coast, we’re fortunate to have access to fresh seafood. But sustainable seafood is another matter. For example, grouper, which is ubiquitous in area restaurants as the “catch of the day” is listed in the “Avoid” category by the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch guide. According to their criteria, it is overfished [...]
Also posted in articles, environmental issues, health issues | Leave a comment