Seafood

The Waterhen Lake walleye and northern pike commercial gillnet fishery has entered into independent, third-party assessment against the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) principles and criteria for sustainable and well-managed fisheries. If successful, this will be the first fresh-water lake fishery in North America to achieve MSC certification. …

Record low hauls of stone crabs off the coast of Florida are creating a scarcity of one of the holiday season's favorite seafood delicacies, pushing up prices and sparking a bidding wars among high-end restaurants. …

Oyster lovers, if you’ve ever wondered whether eating this delectable mollusk – cooked or raw – was a threat to your health, you can now breathe a sigh of relief. …

The Food and Drug Administration today released an electronic version of its Environmental Assessment (EA) for a genetically modified (GM) salmon developed by AquaBounty Technologies of Massachusetts—effectively giving its preliminary seal of approval on the first transgenic animal to be considered for federal approval. …

Consumers Union, the advocacy and policy arm of Consumer Reports, criticized the Environmental Assessment (EA) of the Aquabounty genetically engineered salmon released today by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as flawed and inadequate. …