Op-ed: Pacific Seafood Controls the Dungeness Crab Market, but Small...
In the Pacific Northwest, Dungeness crab, the region’s prized crustacean, fills boiling pots in homes and restaurants from the earliest holiday parties to New Year’s revelries, and through Chinese New...
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A Fight for Salmon Fishing Rights Connects Indigenous Peoples Across the...
In May 2017, Masaki Sashima, head of the Raporo Ainu Nation, led a small delegation of fellow tribal members from Urahoro, a coastal city in Hokkaido, Japan, to visit their Indigenous counterparts in...
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How Alaska Natives Lost the Right to Fish Sacred Salmon
The many modern-day threats to the Alaska Native way of life are well-documented, but nothing offers an inside look into this world quite like My Side of the River. Weaving together personal stories...
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NOAA Is Rolling Out a Plan to Radically Expand Offshore Aquaculture. Not...
The cardboard gravestones read “RIP Local fisherman,” “RIP Wild Fish,” and “RIP Humpback Whales.” Assembled in response to new aquaculture sites planned off the coast of California, the gravestones...
View ArticleWhat the Rapid Rise of Norway’s Farmed Salmon Industry Means For the Rest of...
The New Fish: The Truth about Farmed Salmon and the Consequences We Can No Longer Ignore is a devastating yet slyly humorous account of the harms caused by 50 years of salmon farming. Much of the book...
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Op-ed: Walmart’s Outsized Catch
Portions of this essay were previously published as “Walmart’s Ocean: Certifications, Catch Shares, and the Ripple Effects of Corporate Governance on Marine Environments” in Big Box USA: The...
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Diving—and Dying—for Red Gold: The Human Cost of Honduran Lobster
Próspero Bendles Marcelino was 15 when he began diving for spiny lobster in the Caribbean waters between Honduras and Nicaragua. That was in 1965, and if he caught an average of 10 pounds of lobster,...
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The Last Front in the Battle to Save the ‘Most Important Fish’ in the Atlantic
Off the rocky coast of Maine, small, silver Atlantic menhaden are now so abundant that harbor seals, bluefin tuna, and bald eagles chase them into harbors, delighting fishermen. Along the sandy shores...
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A Circular Economy for Fish? These Icelandic Companies Have a Plan.
The slippery, scaly skin of the Atlantic Cod is usually thrown out when the fish is harvested. But in a remote settlement on Iceland’s northwestern coast, a group of scientists is turning fish skin...
View ArticleWalmart Heirs Bet Big on Journalism
This article was co-produced and co-published with Nonprofit Quarterly. From vast riparian watersheds to fisheries to croplands, few corners of the nation’s—and the world’s—food systems have escaped...
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