Text your fish safety questions to FishPhone

by Marisa McClellan (Subscribe to Marisa McClellan's posts)
Posted Oct 5th 2007 8:56AM
Filed under: Farming, Fish, On the Blogs, America, Shellfish, Health & Medical

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Screengrab from the Blue Ocean Institute website

Yesterday I wrote about the controversy over whether pregnant and nursing women should eat fish and if so, how much they should eat. If you've decided that eating fish is the way to go for you and want to make sure that your choices are grounded in good information, there's a new service that can help you out via text message.

The Blue Ocean Institute is offering a service called FishPhone. Simply send a text message to 30644 with the word FISH and the type of fish you want to know about and it will get back to momentarily with information about that particular type of fish. You can also search on their website if you are planning dinner and want to check out the safety of the fish called for in your recipe. Unfortunately, the website doesn't give much info on mercury levels and seems pretty static, so it wouldn't be helpful in the case of current safety alert.

Via Treehugger

Tags: Blue Ocean Institute, fish, fish safety, FishPhone, Treehugger

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10-05-2007 @ 10:29AM

jsmylie said...

Pretty cool service, if a little unnecessary.

10-05-2007 @ 2:10PM

nick said...

I Just wanted to respond to an entry by Michael. Who mentions that:

"NPR reported that this organization is primarily funded by the fishing industry..."

This is an inaccurate statement. Blue Ocean Institute is funded largely by the Packard Foundation, who also funds other leading marine conservation groups.

Blue Ocean is certainly not funded by "the fishing industry".

If you look at their health advisory information its actually from Environmental Defense, a source of some of the most up-to-date seafood health advisory information in the US.

I just wanted to clear up any ambiguity. I would hate Blue Ocean to be represented by mis-informed information.

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