Our summer intern recently wrote to Trader Joe’s asking them why they sell Orange Roughy.  He pointed out that Orange Roughy are at very low levels of abundance and the methods used to catch them cause serious damage to the seamount habitats where they live.

Friday I had a firsthand look at an oyster farm on Long Island, NY.  It is the Aeros Cultured Oyster Company based out of Southold, NY.

First came World Ocean Day (June 8th).  Then, last Friday, Obama declared that June is National Oceans Month.

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal talked about Community Supported Fisheries (or CSFs)-a way for folks to get fish that follows the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) model where people buy a share of the produce, or in this case, buy a share of a fisherman’s catch.  Read more here.

June 16, 2009 – Blue Ocean Institute’s Dr. Alan Duckworth quoted in Newsday on PCB concerns in local weakfish population.  Click here for full article!

The following post by Carl Safina appeared in the New York Times Blog ‘Room for Debate,’ June 9, 2009.  For a full version of the blog, click here.

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Exciting news for all you FishPhone™ enthusiasts out there, and we know there are lots of you: you can now get the same handy seafood ranking info in a variety of formats.

The following article was originally posted on Carl Safina’s blog and describes my field trip to Jamaica in Jan 2009