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That 'Sustainable' Label On Your Fish Doesn't Mean What You Think

Halibut catch in Alaska.
Flickr Photo/Jay Cross (CC BY 2.0)
Halibut catch in Alaska.

Jeannie Yandel talks with Lee van der Voo, a Portland-based investigative reporter for Investigate West, about her reporting on how some sustainably-certified pollock and sole fisheries are actually harming small, Native halibut fishing communities in western Alaska. 

Photo credit: "Halibut," by Jay Cross on Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Correction 7/31/15: An earlier version of this story included a photograph that incorrectly identified boats pictured as Pollock fishing vessels. We have removed that photograph.