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Wreaking Haddock: How To Eat Sustainable Seafood

It’s World Oceans Day and there’s commotion in the Ocean. If we all don’t start eating seafood in a sustainable way, the oceans may be out of fish by 2048. Three strikes and you’re trout. Or hear what Umbra has to say about whats on your plate and in the ocean. You’ll want to follow these guidelines hook, line and sinker.

Umbra on Tuna and Mercury

http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-…

Director of Seafood Choices Alliances

http://www.grist.org/comments/interac…

OTHER LINKS:
Join Oceana to help protect the Worlds oceans.

http://www.oceana.org

Support the New York Aquarium

http://www.nyaquarium.com/

Shrimp Suck!

http://shrimpsuck.blogspot.com/

SEAFOOD GUIDES
Blue Ocean Institute Seafood Guide – http://www.oceana.org/fileadmin/ocean…
iPhone App from the Monterey Bay Aquarium

http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr…

Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch Pocket Guides

http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr…

Another cool guide for the visually inclined:

http://neilbanas.com/seafood.html

A Guide to Grocery Stores that Protect You From Mercury

http://www.oceana.org/gl/

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Posted by admin - September 6, 2011 at 8:30 am

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Barton Seaver: Sustainable seafood? Let’s get smart

Original website : http://www.TED.com

http://www.ted.com/talks/barton_seaver_sustainable_seafood_let_s_get_smart.html

About this talk :
Chef Barton Seaver presents a modern dilemma: Seafood is one of our healthier protein options, but overfishing is desperately harming our oceans. He suggests a simple way to keep fish on the dinner table that includes every mom’s favorite adage — “Eat your vegetables!”
About Barton Seaver
Barton Seaver is an advocate of sustainable seafood and a chef in Washington DC. His work tells the story of our common resources through the communion we all share — dinner.

Full biography :

http://www.ted.com/speakers/barton_seaver.html

External links :
BartonSeaver

http://www.bartonseaver.org/

Video source file :

http://video.ted.com/talks/podcast/BartonSeaver_2010Z_480.mp4

Under Creative Commons License : Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported
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Posted by admin - November 3, 2010 at 7:02 am

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Save Our Seas News: LIVE FROM TRADER JOE’S

Watch as Greenpeace Student Activists visit Trader Joe’s stores in San Francisco, Capitolia, Santa Cruz and North Beach to meet with store managers about the store’s endangered seafood products.

If you want Trader Joe’s to start selling sustainable seafood, call Jon Basalone at (626) 599-3700 ext 3756 and tell him that you want Trader Joe’s to stop selling endangered seafood products.

www.traitorjoe.com
www.greenpeace.org

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Posted by admin - March 6, 2010 at 9:57 pm

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Seafood Watch

For more Stories, Food News, and Cooking Fresh videos, visit http://cookingupastory.com Seafood Watch, a program of the Monterey Bay Aquarium began about 10 years ago to help raise consumer awareness and promote business practices to protect the oceans fish populations from overfishing, pollution, and native habitat destruction. Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood WatchSeafood Watch, in addition to compiling up to-date, and reliable information on marine life and the oceans ecosystems, produces a series of small pocket seafood guides, organized by region, to help consumers make informed choices about the fish they purchase in restaurants and in grocery markets.

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Posted by admin - January 10, 2010 at 10:29 pm

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