Entries Tagged as 'Seafood Watch'
The manager at our local food co-op is doing a great job aligning seafood choices with the sustainability recommendations of Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program. As he tells is, this involved repeated conversations with the sales reps at our purveyor in Boston, Black River Produce. This week the selections included six rated “best choice” […]
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One of the great features of our local food co-op is the fresh seafood trucked in each week from Boston. On Tuesday’s we get an e-mail from the co-op with a list of choices. We place our order and usually by sometime Thursday afternoon it’s ready to be picked up. Last week I tried something […]
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Consumers depend on reputable ratings agencies to tell them which varieties of finfish and other seafood can be sustainbly caught and eaten. So what happens when one of the biggest of those ratings agencies is found to have a conflict of interest? A group of prominent conservationists have called into question the legitamacy of the […]
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Tags:marine stewardship council·seafood·Seafood Watch