April 2010

  • How to Buy Pacific Salmon

    By lisala on 4/28/10 8:15pm
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    There are three main categories of salmon you'll find when you're shopping for fresh salmon at your local fish market or grocery store. First, the salmon may be fresh wild salmon, caught by fisherman. Secondly, the salmon may be carefully cultivated in salmon farms. This is very common all over the world. But the Pacific Northwest is not one of the places you'll likely find farmed Salmon (farmed salmon is most commonly Atlantic salmon), and wild salmon fishing is very strictly regulated. Thirdly, both wild and farm salmon can be sold frozen, or may have been previously frozen (often while at sea) and then thawed by the market. All three are potentially edible salmon, but you need to know how to buy salmon, and why you might want to avoid farmed salmon.

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  • Take Seafood Off Your Plate

    By erika on 4/22/10 11:40am
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    I recently ran across a constellation of articles online about something I've been thinking about for a while now.  Seafood is the only commercial food which is primarily wild caught.  Can you imagine if the beef industry's attention were turned to wild buffalo, or to herds of elk or white tailed deer?  They wouldn't last long out there, would they?  And it would be completely unreasonable to expect the wilderness to sustain our appetite.

    And yet, that's pretty much what we're doing with seafood.  Commercial fisheries are collapsing left and right, and each time a domino falls, the effect is felt throughout the entire food chain.  How long before the food chain in the oceans collapses completely?


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