Of "fairness", balance & equal standards when assessing so-called “wild”, and farmed salmon
COLOUR BLIND? Why was a “Yellow”/”Best Alternative” rating recommendation for BC farmed salmon not released since 2012, and ‘reviewed’-down many times until it became “Red”/"Avoid"???
An Open Letter to the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch programme and to its funder, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
By Bertrand Charron, SeafoodIntelligence.com Editor (April 23, 2014)
Is it not time to (also) reconsider “Wild” Alaska salmon?
SeafoodIntelligence.com can finally reveal the outcome of the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch programme’s lengthy and convoluted assessment process re. the salmon farming industries in British Columbia (BC, Canada), Scotland, Norway and Chile. It's “confidential” but... they do ALL “fail”; “un-surprisingly” will say some (for various reasons) – and are all to be granted by the forthcoming Seafood Watch reports a ‘Red’ i.e. “Avoid” recommendations.
What is perhaps most surprising is that - in the case of BC farmed salmon report- for almost two years, the various drafts of the reports which SeafoodIntelligence read earlier this year, were all “Yellow”, i.e. “Best Alternative”. I have had this knowledge now for over two months and have communicated with Seafood Watch to enquire why the report was not being published. Shortly thereafter, sources within the Monterey Bay Aquarium said they had never seen so much ‘fuss’ being made about (not) publishing any other Seafood Watch report... that it was a very “hot” topic.
One month later, the [not the first...] “final” draft was ‘finally’ issued (dated March 31, 2014) and the colour of the advisory had changed to... “Red”...
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