Top Chef Features Sustainable Seafood!

The sustainable seafood movement is making its way through prime time television. This is yet another sign of how important this issue has become.

Top Chef Season 6, Episode 9, aired October 21st featuring sustainable seafood throughout the challenges. Celebrity chef and advocate for the movement, Rick Moonen, served as guest judge and provided contestants [...]

“Turning the Tide”

Mark your calendars! The Monterey Bay Aquarium just released a report that will serve as a benchmark from which to measure progress of the sustainable seafood movement into the future. The report highlights where we are and where we’re going. For all you newbies to the movement, it also gives us tons of easy to [...]

Top 10 Misunderstood Terms in Fisheries Management

Fishery/fisheries: The industry or industries dedicated to the catching, processing, and selling of fish, shellfish, or other aquatic animals; not a hatchery.
Management/Managers: Taking action to regulate the behavior of fishermen and therefore affect a fish population to achieve certain objectives, such as maximizing the harvest of fish while allowing the population to replenish itself. [...]

What is blogging and how do blogs work?

About two months ago a good friend taught me that blogs can be a very powerful tool. Before that, I didn’t even know what blogging meant. And since then, I’ve developed a slight addiction to reading blogs and was motivated enough to start this one.
The Value of Reading Blogs
Unless you are a truly boring individual [...]

Intro to Sustainable Ocean Project (SOP)

Mainstream media is starting to pick up on a hugely important but not very well understood issue….the health of our oceans and fish populations. You might read in the newspaper that the world may run out of seafood by 2048, or you might hear that you shouldn’t eat too much tuna because it contains high [...]

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Sustainable Ocean Project (SOP) brings you inspiring stories and easy to understand information about a growing sustainable and local seafood movement that we all should be a part of.