Add blue crabs and stone crabs to the list of wildlife plummeting in the Indian River Lagoon region. While crab harvests can vary widely year-to-year, the long-term trend has been a downward spiral.
An Aug. 22 BBC News article quotes Ken Buesseler, a marine chemist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who’s studied the spread of Fukushima radionuclides in the Pacific, saying certain radioactive isotopes could accumulate in seafood and present risks to human health. But in an FAQ on the Woods Hole website, Buesseler clarifies it’s only certain species in the coastal waters off Fukushima, in fisheries that have been closed, that are unsafe to eat. He’s not concerned about seafood caught even a short distance from there, much less off the U.S. West Coast. …
Wal-Mart isn’t happy that Alaskan fishermen have decided to drop an environmental certification label on their state’s wild-caught salmon, and the retail giant is showing its dissatisfaction by threatening to discontinue the product at its retail stores. This warning has sparked the concern of Alaskan fishermen everywhere, and the state’s fishing and policy officials demonstrated that worry by meeting with buyers at Wal-Mart’s headquarters Thursday, pleading their case. …
With the launch of its first Corporate Responsibility Report, Perdue Farms has unveiled its formal corporate sustainability platform, “We Believe in Responsible Food and Agriculture”™. …
Real food starts with real farmers. We work with self-sustaining family farms because they’re good stewards of their land, and they feel the ethical obligation to provide their pigs with a comfortable life. Not only do they raise their pigs right, but they also grow much of the grain used to feed those pigs. It allows for a higher quality, well monitored feed free of GMOs and animal by-products. They are housed in open pens with outdoor access allowing them to romp, frolic and engage in natural behavior. …
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