Widespread Seafood Fraud in the United States Documented by Oceana
The ocean conservation organization Oceana, recently released a report that documented widespread mislabeling of seafood sold in United States supermarkets, restaurants, and sushi bars. You can download a copy of … Continue reading
Google Searches and Patterns in Interest in Shark Conservation, Shark Finning, and Shark Fishing,
In the last year there has been considerable controversy regarding overfishing of sharks and the practice of shark finning. These were, and remain, hot fishery conservation topics. To put this … Continue reading
The Day the Ocean Sunfish Went Viral: a Look back on 2012
This photograph, of an ocean sunfish Mola mola, was taken by Daniel Botelho in 2010. In July 2012 he ran across it, and posted it to his Facebook page. The … Continue reading
Ice Fishing Trifishaton
Building on the wildly popular Scofield Ice Fishing Tournament, this year bringing the 7th annual installation of that event, Utah State Parks has inaugurated an ice-fishing Trifishaton for trout in three … Continue reading
Beel den Stormer Presents the Only Fishery Blog You Need 
McDonald’s Fish McBites Contain Seahorse Meat: A new Urban Legend
Beel loves it! CBS News recently reported “Fish McBites fail to spark McDonald’s sales.” Well of course they failed, they’re terrible (see Beel’s review). Anyway, Beel got all over this with … Continue reading →