Regal Springs Tilapia News

Regal Springs Tilapia hosted an intimate dinner at the Avenues at The Peninsula in Chicago in May. Celebrity chef Curtis Duffy cooked Regal Springs’ Tilapia for food writers and sustainability experts, as well as customers and staff of Regal Springs.

Regal Springs Tilapia is the main ingredient in two recent award-winning products: Gordon’s Premium Fish Sticks and Hot Smoked Tilapia, a product of Agustson a/s & Marz Seafood a/s of Denmark.

Mike Picchietti, president of Regal Springs Trading Company (RST), is retiring from the company he helped start in the early 1990s.

"Regal Springs Tilapia’s farm Aquafinca in Honduras is the first to be audited to the Tilapia Aquaculture Dialogue standard."

Sales of loins from Regal Springs tilapia in Costco Inc. are going so strong the retail giant is now selling the product under its Kirkland Signature brand.

Costco Corp., one of the largest food retailers in the United States, says it no longer will sell seven species of seafood deemed to be overfished or caught in a way that is harmful to the environment.

The final step in the process of creating global standards for tilapia farming began Tuesday, when the tilapia aquaculture dialogue kicked off the last public comment period for the standards.

Sysco's plan to develop new sustainable-seafood sourcing strategies for the major species it sells could lead to improvements in fisheries and aquaculture around the world, Meredith Lopuch, WWF'sdeputy director of sustainable seafood, told IntraFish.

As the temperature hovered around the freezing mark outside, Israel Snir sat inside a warm café in one of Washington, DC’s trendy neighborhoods. He was in town to testify at a hearing about organic standards for aquaculture but, that morning, his mind was back in Honduras. The same cold front that had hit Washington, DC also had hit Honduras, where Israel helps operate one of the world’s largest fresh filet tilapia farms – Aquafinca, owned by Regal Springs Group.

Industry experts and businesspeople in China say that the industrial chemical has been routinely added to fish and animal feed to artificially boost protein readings.

A study just released in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition finds moms who eat more fish, as well as moms who breastfeed the longest, have babies with better physical and mental development.

The industrial chemical melamine is commonly added to animal feed in China to make it appear higher in protein, state media reported, in what appeared to be a tacit admission by the government that contamination is widespread in the country's food supply. 

Pregnant women who ate more than two or three servings a week had smarter children with better developmental skills, researchers found.

A new consumer nutrition education flyer created by a task force of food and health organizations encourages the importance of seafood consumption for pregnant and breastfeeding women.

The first set of measurable, performance-based tilapia aquaculture standards created through a transparent and multi-stakeholder process was released for public comment today. They are the first draft standards from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-initiated Aquaculture Dialogues.

When a recent article and subsequent media distribution called tilapia a worse nutrition choice than pork bacon for some consumers, a storm of protest emerged from the nutrition community.

A colleague of mine asked me whether we should warn our patients about the dangers of consuming tilapia. My reply was: “No! Absolutely not!”

“Having never traveled to Honduras, I must say that I was pleasantly surprised by the sophistication of some of the operations we visited. Of particular note was the tilapia farm, Aquafinca Saint Peter Fish S.A., which was impressive for many reasons, not the least of which were its ecofriendly method of operation and the way it treats its employees.”

There's an interesting discussion in this month's "Journal of the American Dietetic Association." What it boils down to is this: Is the fatty acid mix in catfish and tilapia healthy or harmful? The debate has even reached the popular press. Why all the fuss?

Experts on seafood and health, including Harvard scientists and u.s. Food and Drug administration scientists, have said over and over again that the health benefits of eating fish far outweigh any hypothetical risks.

Here in southern China, beneath the looming mountains of Fujian Province, lie dozens of enormous ponds filled with murky brown water and teeming with eels, shrimp and tilapia, much of it destined for markets in Japan and the West.

Explore this delicious eco-friendly fish.

Professor of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. frank Sacks, explains what are omega-3 fatty acids, and why should you make sure to include them in your diet.