I’ll be the first to admit, my blog isn’t always rainbows, puppies and hand holding. I’m often pointing out problems with media coverage and breaking a few proverbial eggs in search of an omelet made from fair coverage.
But this morning, from Boston, I’m as close to brimming with positivity as I get (cue the puppies.) While I don’t nearly have the personal provenance to proclaim that in all of my storied years (make that decades, yeah that sounds better) of coming to Boston, that this show was the best—and so on and so fourth and from this day forward we will remember it as this, that and the other thing, but I can say there was quite a positive air about things here in waterlogged Bean Town.
The media coverage was thorough, the attendance was impressive and the issues addressed were substantive. Talk of fighting fish fraud and working on sustainability peppered the parties and the infiltrated the deal making.
Radical environmentalists bent on disruption did not materialize and misguided barbs about bluefin were not the rhetorical order of the day. In fact, reasonable members of the seafood community simply went about their business with a responsible eye towards the future…and somehow the four horsemen of the apocalypse did not materialize (what!?—cue the rainbow.)
Left to our own devices it would appear the seafood community puts on a pretty good show.
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March 16, 2010
