7. A step back for organic seafood: For the last decade or more, a few dedicated aquaculture specialists have tried to get the USDA’s National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) to issue final recommendations to set parameters for organic seafood. It’s been a long road, filled with disappointments, and 2014 was more of the same. A key meeting in San Antonio, Texas, was derailed by the opposition in April, and one longtime organic seafood proponent (George Lockwood, chairman of the Aquaculture Working Group commissioned by NOSB) said his group’s efforts were “badly smeared.” No real progress has been made for years and it seems that political forces at play are making the proposition of a U.S. market for organic seafood a lost cause.
December 30, 2014
