What the FDA Cannot See: Bycatch, Seafood Imports, and the Gap Between Food-Safety Enforcement and Fishing Rules
No FDA rule governs bycatch. A crosswalk of 3,214 FDA seafood import refusals against NOAA marine-mammal import bans shows where the two records point to the same countries and species, and where bycatch is invisible to the agency that inspects seafood at the border.
Off the Menu? Evaluating the Chefs’ Campaign Against Ocean-Farmed Salmon
A neutral evaluation of the Off The Table campaign against ocean-farmed salmon: which of its claims the primary evidence supports, whether its objectives are specific, measurable and achievable, and what a U.S. salmon label can and cannot tell a shopper.
Service-Case Seafood Capture Schema: Fields, Normalization & Confidence Semantics
A FAT Engineering Note (companion to Seafood Paper No. 5) specifying the field schema for loose seafood captured at the full-service counter: placard, identity, and context fields with normalization rules, confidence semantics, and tiered resolution logic — so the App never confirms more than a photo can prove.
Searching Seafood by Metro Area: A Public Relevance Layer for the FAT App
Why and how the FAT App can search seafood by metro area — layering FDA enforcement, NOAA gateway trade, Census business infrastructure, and USDA ERS retail proxies into a metro relevance engine built on the public record.
Brand Search in Practice: A Seven-Distributor Pilot of the Seafood Label Model
A pilot of FAT’s confidence-graded seafood brand-search model across seven foodservice distributors — 8 FDA bridges, the 2025 Aqua Star Cs-137 chain.
Scanning the Seafood Label: A Confidence-Graded Brand-Search Model
A confidence-graded brand-search model for the FAT App, built for FDA-regulated seafood where the label identifies a distributor or marketer rather than the actual processor.
How the FDA Enforces Seafood Law
FDA’s seafood enforcement record is public and substantial, but it is fragmented across manuals, warning letters, import alerts, recalls, inspection databases, and FOIA-reading-room records rather than collected in one complete file. 
Catfish Production Overview
A research overview of US farm-raised catfish — production scale, geographic concentration, trade flows, the long decline, and FSIS regulation.
How Imported Fish Is Regulated: FDA’s Import Safety Program, HACCP Equivalence, and the Documented Inspection Gaps
A plain-English guide to how imported fish is regulated in the United States — covering FDA’s import safety program, HACCP equivalence requirements, documented GAO findings on inspection gaps, the drug residue problem, import alert administration, and the EU comparison.
How Domestic Fish Is Regulated: FDA Authority, HACCP, Voluntary Inspection, and the Gaps That Remain
A plain-English guide to how domestic farm-raised fish is regulated in the United States — covering FDA authority, mandatory HACCP, NOAA voluntary inspection, USDA AMS Country of Origin Labeling, drug and feed controls, and the gaps consumers need to understand.