Comments on: Fishing For Answers: How To Choose Fish and Seafood

By: Melanie

Melanie — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:01:38 +0000

Thanks for your quick response! What is steelhead and if not from the ocean, where is it from?

By: Darya Pino

Darya Pino — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:46:39 +0000

Good point, it’s hard to say. Lately I’ve been eating local steelhead, which isn’t from the ocean.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:56:02 +0000

Hi, Darya! I love your newsletter and website. Very inspiring.
I know I’m quite late here, but hope you see this comment.
I’ve been concerned about Alaskan salmon since the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and the resulting nuclear power plant disaster. Notice there has been a media blackout the last few months. But we all know radioactive water was poured into the ocean, and we don’t know what is going on currently – but it can’t be good. So I’m concerned about
the fish from Alaska. What do you think????

By: AJ

AJ — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:51:36 +0000

Thanks for your quick response. I always love hamachi and salmon, but when I went to a restaurant last week, I tried walu for the first time and loved it! I am also now avoiding tuna. Looking forward to trying out snapper and snow crab some time…

By: Darya Pino

Darya Pino — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:02:07 +0000

I like to order stuff I’ve never heard of before if possible, and ask the chef what is special. My faves are walu, snapper, snow crab, hamachi and salmon. I avoid tuna when possible, but most people like it so it usually gets ordered by someone. I used to like scallops until I got food poisoning from one… still trying to overcome that aversion.

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:34:14 +0000

Darya, what kinds of sushi or sashimi do you tend to order at Japanese restaurants?

By: Darya Pino

Darya Pino — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 02:34:41 +0000

Seriously? I haven’t bought this stuff in awhile, but I wouldn’t eat anything from China…

By: Sparks

Sparks — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 02:16:28 +0000

What the …?
The Henry & Lisa’s “Wild Alaskan Salmon” (9 oz) package USED TO say “Wild – Product of USA” — This has been covered by a “PRODUCT OF CHINA” sticker. Is it still as good as when caught in Alaskan waters?

By: Ina Franks

Ina Franks — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:18:25 +0000

and some of those farmed fish are the reason why the wild fish is being close to extinction but yea, I can’t see the advantage of catching wild-caught fish on the west coast of africa or west/east coast of latin america, processing that fish into fish meal, shipping it to australian tuna farms and then ship the frozen tuna to Japan, Europe or the US. I rather eat no fish if that is the only fish I can get my hands on.

By: thomas

thomas — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:58:00 +0000

and some of those farmed fish are the reason why the wild fish is being close to extinction
but yea, I can’t see the advantage of catching wild-caught fish on the west coast of africa or west/east coast of latin america, processing that fish into fish meal, shipping it to australian tuna farms and then ship the frozen tuna to Japan, Europe or the US. I rather eat no fish if that is the only fish I can get my hands on.