Good news, conservation works! In early April, Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program moved almost 70% of the Chilean Seabass on the market from avoid to good alternative. This change in ranking came after a year-long assessment by Monterey Bay Aquarium and is largely due to the efforts of conservation, management and science.
The conservation group Oceana released a report this week on the prevalence of seafood mislabeling at restaurants and grocery stores throughout the country. The report detailed that up to one in three of the fish samples they tested were not labeled in accordance with the FDA regulations. The good news? Grocery stores in Denver were 100% compliant.
Seafood is our passion - we eat, breathe and sleep fish. Even so, sometimes it’s tough to keep up with latest press concerning responsible sourcing, fishing quotas, farming concerns, and sustainability. What’s a responsible fish-ophile to do?
At Seattle Fish Company, we love what we do and we thrive on continually seeking new information about products, the industry, legislature, sustainability and improving our operations.
