{"id":6320,"date":"2011-11-08T02:00:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blitransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=6320"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:20:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:20:48","slug":"target-to-sell-only-sustainable-traceable-fish-by-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2011\/11\/08\/target-to-sell-only-sustainable-traceable-fish-by-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Target to Sell Only Sustainable Traceable Fish by 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Fishing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6332\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2011\/11\/08\/target-to-sell-only-sustainable-traceable-fish-by-2015\/fishing\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Fishing.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,333\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Fishing\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Fishing&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Fishing-300x199.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Fishing.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6332\" title=\"Fishing\" src=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Fishing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Fishing.jpg 500w, https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Fishing-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Discount retailer Target announced they will sell only sustainable, traceable fish by 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Target will work with FishWise, a nonprofit marine conservation group, to find out where the seafood comes from and how it is caught or farmed.<\/p>\n<p>Recent reports indicate that <a title=\"Fish Fraud:  Mislabeled Seafood\" href=\"http:\/\/eatdrinkbetter.com\/2011\/11\/03\/fish-fraud-mislabeled-seafood\/\" target=\"_blank\">up to half of all seafood is mislabeled<\/a>. Fish substituted may be a less expensive variety, less healthy, or <a title=\"Sustainable Fish Logos: Not All They\u2019re Made Out To Be\" href=\"http:\/\/eatdrinkbetter.com\/2011\/09\/21\/sustainable-fish-logos-not-all-theyre-made-out-to-be\/\" target=\"_blank\">unsustainable when it&#8217;s labeled as sustainable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Verifying that seafood is being caught in a sustainable manner will be difficult, but FishWise intends to perform supplier audits and create a tracking system.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 2% of all seafood is inspected in the United States. With a large corporation like Target behind the venture, tracking seafood may become easier.<\/p>\n<p>Image by <a title=\"Emrys.Roberts's Flickr Stream\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/emrysroberts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emrys.Roberts<\/a>, used with Creative Commons license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discount retailer Target announced they will sell only sustainable, traceable fish by 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":6332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[12,19],"tags":[2854,564,736,1945,1946,2138],"yst_prominent_words":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Fishing.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6320"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}