Last week the European Union considered a petition to ban on all products made from spiny dogfish. The petition, put forward by the representative from Germany, would have banned trade of all spiny dogfish products, and barring that called for changing the names of some…
Things had been going pretty well for U.S. dogfish fisheries. In June 2010, after half a decade of an essentially closed fishery, the U.S. Atlantic stock was considered rebuilt. Shortly after, representatives of the fishery petitioned and successfully received sustainability certification from the Marine Stewardship…
I freely admit that I enjoy seafood. I grew up in New England, where the American seafood industry was practically invented, and now live in North Carolina, where the confluence of cold and warm water at Cape Hatteras makes for some of the richest fishing…