Traceability was key to easing consumer fears after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and that could offer Tohoku¡¯s struggling fishermen a way to deal with the Fukushima nuclear disaster, says the Texas fisherman who took the initiative in introducing the system.
According to Buddy Guindon, it wasn¡¯t easy to assure seafood buyers and consumers around the world who knew little about the fact that the area affected by the giant oil slick caused by BP¡¯s blown well was relatively small compared with the entire Gulf.
¡°We had a lot of people calling us asking if there were oil on our fish,¡± Guindon, executive director of the Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Shareholders¡¯ Alliance, said in an interview Thursday.
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