Finfish to Shellfish
As two Midwesterners who moved to Puget Sound, we found out exactly how little we knew about seafood. After all, the fish we grew up on came out of lakes and streams.
This collection of exclusive GoodFood World articles introduces the many people who work together to bring sustainably harvested and carefully handled finfish and shellfish to your table.
Gail Nickel-Kailing, December 8th, 2015 
Loki Fish Co. has been going strong for more than 35 years, and has evolved from a single fishing boat to a vertically-integrated, direct marketing company selling a wide variety of fresh, frozen, and processed fish products in Washington, Oregon, and northern California, as well as through an online store and online resellers.
Read more: Loki Fish Company: Building a Brand, One Fish at a Time
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Gail Nickel-Kailing, August 11th, 2015 
The ocean contains 97% of the planet’s water and covers 71% of the Earth’s surface. Stand on the shore and its expanse and distant horizon imply an endless source of resources. Now we recognize that the oceans are not boundless and the numbers of fish are not endless. It wasn’t until the late 20th Century that we understood the world production (harvest) of fish is on a downward trend and we will be out of fish by the middle of this century unless we take some drastic steps.
Read more: So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish
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Gail Nickel-Kailing, December 18th, 2014 
If you live on the East Coast, West Coast, or Gulf Coast or even the Great Lakes, and if you’ve looked closely at the fish in your local supermarket – regardless of where you live – chances are you’ll find your fish originates from just about anywhere else in the world.
Read more: To Save Our Wild and Native Seafood, We Have to Eat It
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Gail Nickel-Kailing, December 16th, 2014 
Pete Knutson, owner of Loki Fish Company, discusses his path to becoming a direct-marketing fisherman.
Read more: Pete Knutson, Small Boat Fisherman
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Ken Kailing, October 3rd, 2014 
While Big Fish, Big Food, and Big Business would have you think that you can save nature by eating factory food, we have a better solution. Protect our wild salmon fisheries by eating more wild fish!
Read more: Protecting Wild Salmon Is the Right Thing to Do
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Gail Nickel-Kailing, September 3rd, 2014 
“Seafood fraud” is big business and a big problem. Why wait for legislation and regulation? There are some simple steps you can take to avoid illegal, unreported, or mislabeled seafood now.
Read more: Do-It-Yourself Seafood Traceability
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Tsukiji Fish Market is a dizzying place offering over 400 unique types of seafood and sea vegetation every day. Any plant or animal from any body of water in the world that could be even remotely considered edible (puffer fish, stone fish etc.) is available. And for the right amount of money it can be yours!
Read more: Tsukiji Fish Market, Tokyo: The Ocean’s ‘Going-Out-of-Business’ Sale
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By the time the first settlers reached the small spit of land that was ultimately to become part of Seattle Washington in 1850, the Olympia oyster population on the Pacific coast was already beginning to be over harvested. And in the early 1900s, poor water quality in Puget Sound threatened to finish it off. Puget Sound shellfish are at risk again.
Read more: Puget Sound Shellfish at Risk
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Today fishing industries around the world – both fin fish and shellfish – are continuing to harvest as large a quantity of fish as possible, mostly without regard to the remaining fish stocks, the environmental effects of wild and farmed catch, and the careful labeling and identification of the product in restaurants and markets. And to make matters worse, we are facing the introduction of genetically engineered fish into the American food system.
Read more: Fishy Fish Tales
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Here in the Pacific Northwest a clam called a geoduck – pronounced “gooey duck” – is the butt of many lewd comments because of its unusual shape. Actually, it’s just a case of outgrowing that way-too-small shell! Geoducks are the largest burrowing clam in the world, and Washington shellfish growers have only been raising them since 1991. And now nearly 800,000 pounds of them seem to be missing.
Read more: Geoduck – Hard to Say, but Big Business!
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Book of the Month
Stand Together or Starve Alone: Unity and Chaos in the U.S. Food Movement
By Mark Winne
“The Food Movement” is a pretty big concept – it can incorporate anything and everything from farming and food production to distribution, marketing, and retail sales. Then toss in farmers markets, food co-ops, and CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture) and it’s a topic that is hard to get your mind around.
In Stand Together or Starve Alone, Mark Winne uses the term “food movement” as an over-arching concept, however he rounds it up into a more straightforward description: “Food Security.” Read on...
A Video You Don't Want to Miss!
As a member of the Blackfeet Nation, Mariah Gladstone, IndigiKitchen, shares the importance of an Indigenous-based diet.
Gladstone poses the question of whether a nation can truly be soverign if they are unable to provide for themselves. Something we should all ask ourselves as we move farther from being able to do so.
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