• Advocacy Blog

    Consumer Reports Jim Rogers is as Accurate as a Groundhog Predicting the Weather

    Ratings and Reviews Service Continues to Peddle Misinformation about Mercury in Seafood Is it Groundhog Day because it sure feels like it? Nearly a month after we exposed Consumer Reports mercury-...

  • Advocacy Blog

    Greenpeace Releases New… Blah, Blah, Blah

    Reaching into its bag of retread tricks, Greenpeace— for the hundred millionth time — is releasing a “Tuna Retailer Scorecard” that no consumers will pay attention to. The thinly veiled fundr...

  • Advocacy Blog

    We Did Consumer Reports Work for Them

    How Worried Should You Be About Consumer Reports? When we challenged reporter, Lauren Kirchner and her team at Consumer Reports, to release all their mercury-in-canned-tuna testing data and put it...

  • Advocacy Blog

    Really, Consumer Reports? Show Us The Numbers

    Consumer Reports new story titled “How Worried Should You Be About Mercury in Your Tuna” is a quintessential example of a news outlet writing its conclusion first and then reverse engineering the...

  • Advocacy Blog

    Consumer Reports Loves a Good Scare Story

    NFI has learned that Consumer Reports magazine is preparing to release a “story” that documents its efforts to test mercury in canned tuna. A story the outlet has repeatedly produced over the yea...

  • Aquaculture Blog

    Aquaculture and the Future of Fish?

    Did you know 52% of the seafood people eat globally comes from aquaculture? Well, it does and that’s why countries and states interested in the future of fish are devoting time and resources to c...

  • Advocacy Blog

    TIME Magazine Editors Forget to Research Salmon Story

    A recent column in Time about farmed salmon appears to have attracted little or no editorial oversight as it was rife with inaccuracies masquerading as opinion. This is not the first time this onc...

  • Uncategorized Blog

    Wear Sunscreen and Read Past the Headlines

    A recent study that suggested a link between fish consumption and melanoma has garnered quite a few headlines. The challenge is, many consumers (and even other journalists) don’t read past said hea...

  • Trade & Commerce Blog

    New Seafood Forms Aim to Improve Buyer Process

    NFI and FMI - The Food Industry Association launched new resources designed to standardize the seafood buying process and improve efficiency. Retailers and wholesalers can use these fillable for...

  • IUU Blog

    The modern-day lawn dart: NOAA’s Seafood Import Monitoring Program

    This article was originally published in Urner Barry’s Reporter Quarterly Magazine. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP) ...

Media Blog

    GG CCTV Screen GrabWhether it’s the tip of a hat for a job well done or a demand for correction keep up with NFI’s latest media work on the Media Blog from NFI's Vice President for Communications Gavin Gibbons.