From the tin to the table.
Fish, farms and the science of the sea.
The people who catch, farm and sell it.
Business, brands and the big debates.
Behind the Label
Birds Eye invented him in 1967, killed him off in 1971, brought him back in 1974 and has recast him ever since. Captain Birds Eye's long career shows what a mascot can do for frozen fish, and what it can't.
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Explainer
For the first time, farms produce more of the world's aquatic animals than fishing boats do. That isn't the end of the wild catch. It's the start of a seafood system that needs both.
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Explainer
Cameras, sonar and machine learning are getting good at reading a salmon cage. The best results so far come from systems that know their limits, and from farmers who still check their work.
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Explainer
A pollock caught off Russia's Pacific coast can be filleted in China and breaded in Europe. It sounds absurd until you look at how the business of fish actually works.
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Feature
Victorian Londoners ate oysters by the hundred million, often from a barrow in the street. Then the beds ran out, and the oyster became something you dress up for.
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The people, ideas, cultures and discoveries shaping our relationship with the sea.
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Seafood passes through far more hands than the one that hauls in the net. On the shore of Lake Tanganyika, the work that decides whether a catch keeps its value happens on the drying ground.
Read the storySALT. is a seafood media platform that brings the ocean closer through food, people, ideas and cultures. We tell the stories that connect what we eat to a bigger picture. We're close to the seafood industry and we believe farmed and wild seafood belong together. Where we stand.
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