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 […]
As is our custom this time of year, we got in a rental car last week and drove from the District of Columbia to our favorite vacation spot on the shores of Casco Bay in South Freeport, Maine. We had a special passenger this time: a five-pound sockeye salmon flown in fresh from Alaska. Our […]
We love to eat certain finfish and the oily ones are particularly good for you. The problem is that so few of them are left in the wild because of overfishing. But in June of this year, the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified as “sustainable” the harpoon fishery for swordfish in Canadian waters of the Atlantic. In […]
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