Food News:
Seafood eating is down (Carteret County News-Times)
Richard Bloomer scoops pound after pound of fresh shrimp on Friday at his fish stand on Arendell street in Morehead City. Shrimp remains the top choice for seafood in the United States.
Seafood Consumption Dipped Last Year: NOAA (Progressive Grocer)
JULY 18, 2008 -- The average American ate 16.3 pounds of fish and shellfish in 2007, a 1 percent decline from 16.5 pounds in 2006, according to a Fisheries Service study by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce, which was released today.
Whole Foods increases farmed seafood standards (Meat News)
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Whole Foods Market announced it has implemented enhanced farmed seafood standards for all farmed seafood sold in its stores. "For years our seafood standards made us a leader in our industry," said Carrie Brownstein, seafood quality standards coordinator for Whole Foods Market.
Dying Trade (Winston-Salem Journal)
Crabs have thrived in the bottom muck of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries even as centuries of overfishing harmed oysters, fish and other species in the nation's largest estuary. Now blue crabs are in trouble, too, and when they go, a way of life is sure to go with them.
Blue Crab Blues: Seafood Business Drowning (CBS News)
It's an anxious summer for watermen harvesting the Chesapeake's best-loved seafood, the blue crab. The way some see it, the crabbing business here isn't just dying. It's already dead.
Whole Foods Bows Strict Farmed Seafood Standards (Progressive Grocer)
Natural and organic foods leader Whole Foods Market said yesterday it has implemented enhanced standards for all farmed seafood sold at its 270 stores in the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Whole Foods adopts innovative standards in seafood procurement (Austin Business Journal)
Whole Foods Market Inc. is imposing stricter standards on the seafood it sells.
Whole Foods adopts innovative standards in seafood procurement (Atlanta Business Chronicle)
Whole Foods Market Inc., which runs seven stores in metro Atlanta, is imposing stricter standards on the seafood it sells. (WFMI)
Dark days for Chesapeake crabbers (The Daily Record)
RIDGE — Chesapeake Bay crabber Paul Kellam has advice for the teenage boys who help tend his traps every summer: You better have a backup plan. It’s an anxious summer for watermen harvesting the Chesapeake's best-loved seafood, the blue crab.
Five cases of illness from fish reported (The Palm Beach Post)
Palm Beach County has one of the highest numbers of reported cases in the state of a nasty fish-related illness that felled five residents recently, but has hit 36 people here since 2003.


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