Posted by Barry on September 9, 2010
Seafood’s Dirty Dozen
Seafood guides tend to focus either on those species that should be avoided for reasons related to environmental health (overfishing) or those species should be avoided for reasons related to human health (their flesh is contaminated with chemicals). Food and Water Watch, an environmental group based in Washington, D. C., publishes a useful [...]
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Posted by Barry on July 20, 2010
Paul Greenberg’s Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food should be required reading for anyone who eats seafood. The assignment won’t be a burden. Greenberg is an unfailingly entertaining writer, and his book arms you with the information you need to make intelligent choices when you are confronted by the confusing and sometimes [...]
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Posted by Barry on June 11, 2010
If you’ve eaten a fish caught off the northeastern coast of the United States in the past few years, chances are good that it passed through the giant refrigerated warehouse of the Gloucester Seafood Display Auction in Gloucester, Massachusetts. That’s where I met Steve Dunn, a fish grader, one morning last April. At 4:00 a.m., [...]
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Posted by Barry on November 12, 2009
There is a strong likelihood that someone in this generation will be the last human to eat a bluefin tuna. By most scientific accounts, the species hovers on the brink of extinction, if it hasn’t already crossed that line.
Should bluefin disappear, much of the blame will go to an organization called the International Commission for [...]
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