Seafood

Consumers who may have shied away from gulf seafood after the BP oil spill, are apparently buying it again. …

Since the average American eats 15.8 pounds of fish and shellfish a year (just under five ounces per week), the risk of too little fish seems to be the bigger threat. And it’s a threat that those risk-only advisories — and even some of the more balanced advisories — may be contributing to by scaring people away from eating fish. …

A group representing more than two dozen seafood companies is refusing to buy lobster, because of a dispute over a mandated pricing formula. …

Three Danish mussel-harvesting vessels have successfully completed the assessment process for MSC certification. Processing company Royal Frysk Muscheln GmbH financed the MSC certification process and can now use the blue MSC ecolabel on the mussels harvested by these three vessels. The ecolabel tells consumers that fish has been caught using sustainable methods and that the product can be traced back to a sustainable fishery that has been certified to the MSC standard. …

Pacific Seafood Group has successfully fought off a class-action lawsuit by Oregon commercial fishermen that once seemed a major threat to the Clackamas-based company. …