We’ve been trolling around for news and netted some doozies. From fish oil, to updated Seafood Watch recommendations, here’s a sampler platter of recent food news morsels.

Restaurant Greenwashers: We are watching you

Developed by intrepid journalist Charles Clover, who brought us the film End of the Line, Fish to Fork is a spanking new online rating system and interactive website that rates restaurants according to their seafood sourcing policies.

You may be surprised by what you find. There’s a lot of assuming going …

Tags: fish oil supplements , overfishing , pollock fish , sustainable fish , sustainable fishing , sustainable seafood

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Called “the Inconvenient Truth” for the oceans, The End of the Line asks viewers to imagine a world without fish and then proceeds to show them exactly how commercial fisheries are decimating hundreds of wild species that we take for granted as food.

This is the film for people who don’t respond to dry, measured environmental messaging focusing on intangible future effects of current fishing practices. This film uses powerful footage and dramatic music to punch the viewer where it hurts: in the stomach.

The film asks viewers: if you …

Tags: bycatch , fish facts , fish stocks , fisheries management , marine ecology , ocean ecosystem , ocean seafood , overfishing , sustainable fish , sustainable fisheries , sustainable seafood , Ted Danson , trawling

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We need to save our oceans, and quickly. The most recent and widely cited report on fisheries predicts a complete global fisheries collapse by 2048 and asserts that ninety percent of large fish such as tuna and swordfish are already gone.

Other than the people using seafood wallet cards and reading eco-blogs, does anyone care?

In a 2008 report on the US Marketplace by Seafood Choices Alliance, chain restaurant operators report that only 22% of their customers are concerned about the environmental condition of the …

Tags: alternatives , fisheries , oceans , overfishing , salmon , shrimp , sustainable seafood , threatened fish species , tuna

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According to a new study recently published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, the world’s oceans are in a “jellyfish stable state”. What this means: jellyfish are pretty much set to rule the oceans.

One reason is overfishing. Normally, there are plenty of fish around to dine on small jellyfish and eat up large a share of zooplankton, the stable jellyfish diet. But less fish = more jellyfish.

The second reason has to do with the high levels of nitrogen and phosphorous in our waterways. This is creating low-oxygen dead zones which …

Tags: jellyfish , jellyfish stable state , monster jellyfish , nomura jellyfish , overfishing

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