Sustainable Seafood Summit Focuses on Aquaculture and Regulating Imports
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [NOLA.com and the Times Picayune] By Benjamin Alexander-Block - February 10, 2015
An annual summit on sustainable seafood kicked off Monday, February 9, in New Orleans, focusing on reasons to promote national aquaculture efforts and better regulate imported farmed seafood.
In her keynote address, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Administrator Kathryn Sullivan said that while federal catch limits are helping to "end overfishing and rebuild our nation's fish stocks ... the simple fact is that the global abundance of human beings are rising but the global abundance of human fish stocks are not.
"Half of the seafood we eat (in the United States) comes...
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