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Enjoy the grilled salmon on your dinner plate - it may not be on the menu for long. As the demand for seafood continues to rise, fueled in part by the now global appetite for sushi, we're in danger of fishing out the oceans. Once-teeming fishing territory like the Grand Banks off the eastern coast of Canada have gone fallow, and highly coveted species like the Atlantic cod and the bluefin tuna are becoming increasingly rare. An influential study published in 2006 in the journal Science predicted that if fishing around the world continued at its present pace, fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Not to Save the Fish | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

Luckily, there's no secret to heading off a potential seafood apocalypse: Simply fish more sustainably, allowing fish stocks time to recover between harvests, just as a forest might be managed for logging. To that end, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 1995 created the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries, a voluntary guide to sustainable fishing - which means controlling illegal fishing, reducing excess fishing capacity and minimizing destructive practices like ghost fishing, when gear is left in the water after a ship departs, still killing sea life. If carried out, these guidelines could keep the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Not to Save the Fish | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

Secret Chef. Having Valentine's dinner at home and want to spemd more time prepping yourself than the meal? The chef at the Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach comes to your rescue packing up a four-course meal of seafood and filet mignon -plus a bottle of champagne- to go. He's even thoughtfully included chocolate croissants for breakfast. $150 for two. 100 South Ocean Blvd, Manalapan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweet Treats and Other Presidents' Weekend Getaways | 1/31/2009 | See Source »

From the heavy presence of seafood mousses to the cheesy compliments the MC paid the female judges, the Bocuse d'Or is nothing if not French. But because it is also a kind of culinary Olympics, with teams from 24 different countries competing over two days for a gold trophy that brings prestige and a $26,000 prize, the contest is imbued with national rivalries that extend from the fans in the bleachers to the flavors on the elaborate platters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food Fight at the Bocuse d'Or | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...them about the thyroid. The women will leave this class today and knock on as many as 50 doors to tell the families under their care about the necessity of using iodized salt to prevent developmental problems in children--an especially important lesson in these poorer parts, where seafood is rarely eaten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tehran's Health Patrol | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

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