Tuesday, March 06, 2007 Cans, cans everywhere how we view our tuna TWENTY years ago as you toured your local supermarket, you d be hard-pressed to find exotic food such as tuna. It s not that I ve got anything against canned tuna; it s still a nice basis of a meal (see recipe below); but once you ve sampled the real thing it s easy to. These days, it seems half an aisle of every supermarket I go into is devoted to this wonderful fish, which is a real shame. Because what I see are cans and...

One of the researchers who helped compile the report says mercury is such a big problem that international policy makers should do more to reduce emissions to safeguard both public health and the environment, where the metal is causing widespread contamination in wildlife. The warning follows an advisory issued earlier this year by Health Canada, urging consumers to be cautious about eating too much albacore canned tuna because it contains elevated levels of mercury. globeandmail.com: Fish...

But commercial fish farms in Florida recently learned to breed the finicky cardinals in captivity. Dowd acknowledged that most ornamental freshwater fish are raised by fish farms, but he hopes to keep the cardinal tetra from that fate. The flashy red-and-blue-striped cardinal tetra fish provides income for rural communities in the Rio Negro region, near the city of Barcelos. They'll try to persuade aquarium owners to buy the Brazilian fish instead of their farm-raised cousins, which will...

In one category, he removed the biggest fish so only smaller examples would breed, creating a situation much like what commercial fishing is doing in the oceans. But a marine researcher at the state University of New York at Stony Brook has found that approach, magnified by commercial fishing fleets scouring the ocean, may be shrinking future generations of fish at a time when human appetites are growing. Breeding a future of small fry Study shows taking big fish, leaving the littlest ones...

NOAA Fisheries Service's final rule implementing interim measures in the Gulf of Mexico red snapper and shrimp fisheries is designed to "temporarily" address overfishing of red snapper in 2007 while the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council develops additional, long-term measures to end overfishing and rebuild the stock. NOAA Fisheries Service's final rule implementing interim measures in the Gulf of Mexico red snapper and shrimp fisheries is designed to "temporarily" address...

While the FDA 2004 consumer advisory urges women of child-bearing age, pregnant women and children to avoid some of the same fish, the agency covered up information about mercury in tuna and made no steps toward protecting consumers at the store with warning signs or bans on sales. In addition to lowering acceptable mercury limits to one part per million of commercial fish, Health Canada has banned contaminated tuna, shark, swordfish, escolar, marlin and orange roughy from store shelves....