A joint investigation carried out by specialists working with the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Washington has revealed that people who eat oily fish and seafood at least two times per week live an average 2.2 years longer than those who seldom feast on such dishes.
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2 April 2013
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The journal Environmental Health Perspectives has recently witnessed the publication of a new study stating that seafood worldwide is presently running the risk of becoming contaminated by the mercury released into the atmosphere by various industrial processes. According to the specialists who have investigated th... |
4 December 2012
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A study conducted by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany and published in today's issue (November 28) of the PLOS ONE journal reveals that, despite their seaside habitation, for the first Sicilians seafood was not a major dish. Observations over skeletons dating back... |
29 November 2012
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Throughout these past few weeks, we spoke on various occasions about how, in order to avoid a potential seafood crisis, fisheries worldwide must push for sustainability.
Recent news on the topic of fish and seafood informs us that, besides making sure fish stocks and fish quotas are well balanced, people who are in... |
25 September 2012
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A new report made public by green-oriented organization Oceana earlier today argues that, as a result of CO2 pollution, the global food industry could soon be left without one very important source of proteins and nutrients: fish and seafood. According to the researchers who looked into this issue, having CO2 emiss... |
24 September 2012
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As far as most people are concerned, seafood can be labeled as either wild or farmed, depending on where it grew and what happened to it before it hit the local markets.
However, it now seems that a third labeling possibility might soon be introduced: hybrid seafood. In spite of this misleading name, we are not dea... |
7 August 2012
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Being the largest international group aimed at safeguarding aquatic natural habitats and closely monitoring fishing activities carried out in international waters, Oceana has long argued that seafood fraud is a problem which needs to be addressed by authorities and high officials as soon as possible.
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28 July 2012
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For the first time in more than a year, the Japanese fishing industry is once again ready to provide local markets with seafood coming from the waters nearby the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. Their choice of species is octopus and marine snails, due to the fact that recent tests indicated that these animals no ... |
26 June 2012
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The major Gulf of Mexico oil spill may be history today, but its effects are still taking a toll on the revenue of seafood business in that area. As a result, shrimpers and crabbers will receive substantial compensation meant to make them forget, at least to a certain extent, the devastating incident ever happened. ... |
1 December 2011
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Researchers with governmental agencies in the United States are continuing to keep an eye out for contaminants that may have made their way into marine animals living in the Gulf of Mexico. They want to reassure people that fish and other seafoods are now safe to eat.The ecosystem was severely affected by the massive... |
25 March 2011
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Climate change along the east coast of the United States, has severely reduced the geographic region where blue mussels can survive, found a new research carried out by University of South Carolina researchers and published in the Journal of Biogeography.Because of the increase in water and air temperatures along the... |
17 August 2010
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According to a new scientific investigation, it may be that certain genetic variations occurring in a specific subset of the general population may be increasing the risk these people have of being poisoned with the chemical arsenic. This is the same stuff that has been used over the centuries by various people to el... |
27 March 2010
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