Oceana launches seafood fraud campaign
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Oceana turned its press conference yesterday at the National Press Club into a pop quiz: Organizers laid out skinless fillets of halibut next to skinless fillets of fluke, both without labels, and then asked the gathered audience to identify each fish by sight. Oceana then repeated the test for red snapper vs. hake and for farmed vs. wild salmon.
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Clams, an open-and-shut case
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While seafood companies near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge are processing oysters from Texas and Louisiana and crabs from North Carolina, my thoughts turn to a plate of delicately fried steamer clams and a heaping bowl of spaghetti dotted with delicate steamed littlenecks. And, as luck would have it, the largest producer of farm-raised hard-shell littlenecks in the United States, Ballard Fish & Oyster Co., is harvesting those little jewels all along Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
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Report Faults FDA Over Risks From Imported Seafood
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WASHINGTON—The Food and Drug Administration is doing a poor job ensuring that imported seafood doesn't pose health risks to Americans, failing to properly assess foreign producers and inspect the products they ship to the U.S., according to a congressional research report released Monday.
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Warning issued on eating popular saltwater fish
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May 10, 2011 - State warnings to limit consumption of certain fish were expanded Monday to include cobia, a popular saltwater game species that some consider one of the tastiest fish caught in South Carolina.
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Bluefish has a PR problem, and plenty of folks who have had encounters with bluefish on the plate can verify its reputation as oily, fishy and/or unpleasant.
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