News Summary: September 3, 2010,
Today's Main Story: For the first time, Japanese are eating more meat than seafood
Japan's “boomers” still prefer seafood but the younger generation has grown up on westernized food, heavy on meat. Our BANR report finds Japan's seafood sector is worried that even as they age, the younger generation will not return to the seafood preferences of their parents. Now many households do not even have the traditional fish carving knife in the kitchen.
Alaska has petitioned to have the eastern population of Steller sea lions delisted as ‘'threatened.'' Gov. Parnell said the state will also challenge the draft Bi-Op that concludes commercial take of groundfish is inhibiting recovery of Steller sea lions in the western population.
In an unusual move, some FDA staffers have issued an opinion today, in advance of review meetings later this month, that Aqua Bounty Technologies Inc's genetically engineered salmon are as safe to eat as normal Atlantic salmon and are 'highly unlikely' to produce significant effects on the environment.
More of the Gulf was reopened to commercial fishing as NOAA opened 5,130 square miles from the Florida Panhandle to the far eastern coast of Louisiana. NOAA also is adding shrimping to the reopened federal waters east of Pensacola.
In the “What next?” category, animal rights activists in Australian are trying to stir up support for labeling that would identify whether wild caught seafood was caught humanely.
We run excerpts from a lengthy rebuttal the Marine Stewardship Council issued in response to the scathing criticism of its environmental credibility by a group of scientists published in the journal Nature
The unemployment rate crept up from 9.5 percent to 9.6 percent in August as the painfully slow jobless recovery continues.
Hurricane Earl has dropped to a Category One as it heads up toward New England and the Maritimes.
We will resume publication on Tuesday, September 7, following the U.S. Labor Day holiday on Monday. Best wishes for a good wekeeknd.
Ken Coons, Annapolis, Maryland
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Seafood.com
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