He spent most of his time in Southeast Alaska, but remembers one summer in Kodiak, where they used a pitchfork to move fish from an un-refrigerated hold to the dock. Vanderweele obtained a degree in agriculture while in Holland, where he studied crop sciences, basic physics, chemistry, social structures and economics. More than 15 years ago, there was little infrastructure or support to develop this industry, but Sidelinger persevered to build an oyster farm in Halibut Cove. There have...

A couch potato is defined by the OED as "a person who spends leisure time passively or idly sitting around, especially watching television or video tapes. Sure, Atkins diet proponents say that potatoes have a fairly high carbohydrate count, but they also recommend regularly eating steak or bratwursts, so I'll forgive them for the potato thing. They're afraid that the image of a slovenly fat guy slouching on his sofa, watching Baywatch reruns is going to have a negative impact on the image...

Shrimp trawlers steer clear, knowing the low oxygen in this part of the Gulf of Mexico makes it uninhabitable for fish and other marine life. Under a process that's been in place for the past decade, a federal task force and a team of scientists appointed by the federal Environmental Protection Agency will meet in New Orleans this week to tackle the problem. Waste water and fertilizer runoff from farms and towns hundreds of miles up the Mississippi pour billions of pounds of excess...

We know our gift of canned tuna will not go far enough, but if more people take the time to think and find it in themselves to give a little whenever possible, perhaps, just perhaps someday we wont need food banks at all. At inception, Alcatraz Seafoods made a promise to their customers To be a different kind of seafood company by offering only all-natural, ocean sustainable seafood. And giving something back rather than looking to take has its own rewards in the long-run. Alcatraz...

Photo by Janet Worne . staff Amid the picturesque landscape of the Bluegrass, alongside the wooden fences that border the acres and acres of thoroughbred breeding farms, there's another kind of breeding going on. During the last 30 years, these colorful fish have created a big splash in back-yard ponds as more and more people have included water features in their home landscapes. An industry of creating, installing and maintaining fish-friendly habitats has sprung up in the United States,...

So, in this Year of the Pig, an acute shortage of pork has been national news as butchers raise prices almost daily and politicians scramble to respond. The Chinese government is struggling to cope -- including deliberations over whether to sell a snuffling, smelly strategic reserve of hun-dreds of thousands of live pigs kept at special subsidized farms for precisely the shortage the country is now facing. In response to this pressure at home, Chinese companies are starting to raise prices...