A new Conservation International special report, “A sea change for seafood?,” details a novel approach that could end human rights violations in the sector.
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Tag Archives: seafood
Demystifying the seafood label: Where your seafood actually comes from
When you buy seafood, your purchase affects fishers, businesses — even the health of the ocean.
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Scan and serve: New tool traces seafood from ocean to plate
CI Brazil is pioneering a seafood traceability program that uses smartphone technology to give consumers the power to make sustainable choices with a few finger swipes.
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Ocean’s Seven: 7 ocean-themed books to read this summer
CI staff share their favorite page-turners about our planet’s largest biome.
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3 Reasons to Be Thankful for Coral Reefs
Something to be thankful for this Thanksgiving: coral reefs. They’re so much more than a rock.
New Report Reveals Costs and Benefits of Aquaculture
We rely on oceans for many essential benefits — oxygen generation, coastal protection, climate moderation and, of course, seafood. Production
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Are your shrimp turtle-friendly?
Last month, NOAA-Fisheries, the U.S.’s fisheries management agency, took bold steps to ban the importation of shrimp from Mexico and
The Bluefin-ish Line
Bluefin tuna are currently one of the world’s hottest commodities. A few years ago, one sold for a staggering $173,600
Mission Sea Turtle
Here’s your mission should you choose to accept it: hold you breath for a month, eat an entire salad bar, swim a marathon a day for 2 weeks, while figuring out how to get to a place you haven’t been to since you were a baby 30 years ago, without the help of signs, GPS, maps, helpful policemen or Google Earth, then at your destination mate non-stop for a few weeks, lay a few hundred eggs at night in a hole you dug with your back feet without looking, now swim back to where you came from to eat some more salad bars and get ready to do it again. Each year. For the rest of your life. Which is long.
Mike Mills of R.E.M. on Nightswimmer and the Great Turtle Race
Rock music heroes R.E.M. are teaming up with Olympic swimming legend Janet Evans to give Nightswimmer, a 440kg (970 lbs)
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