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” […]
Here’s a sure sign of the times: the last sardine cannery in the United States, located in Prospect Harbor, ME, is closing. National Public Radio had a wonderful report on these sad tidings, including an interview with a woman in her 70s–Lela Anderson–who’s been working in the plant since she was a teenager. Stinson Seafood, […]
A federal ban on fishing red snapper went into effect this week from Florida to the Carolinas and officials are considering banning fishing of any kind in a large area of Atlantic waters. Fishermen don’t like the ban much and some groups are threatening to file suit, arguing that federal agencies should consider economic impacts […]
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