Comments on: Wild Planet Wild Albacore Tuna

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:51:23 +0000

My wife just picked up some of this and we’re going to have Tuna Fish Casserole with it. She knows I always go for healthy, wild-caught foods, organic foods including dairy.

I’m anxious to try this out. She picked it up in the health food aisles at Wegman’s. I’ll write back about the taste.

By: Sue

Sue — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:00:36 +0000

I’m Sue, the Marketing Manager for Wild Planet Foods and am happy to reply to Jason’s question. It is true that Tongol tuna, like Skipjack tuna is a tuna species with lower mercury content overall compared to albacore; a reading of 0.017 ppm is 10 times less quantity than 0.17ppm.

Wild Planet only sources products rated “best choice” by Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch; Tongol tuna is not so rated (see http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/SeafoodWatch/web/sfw_search.aspx?s=tongol%20tuna), that is why we have chosen to produce pole-caught Skipjack tuna as our lowest mercury content tuna. Its content is comparable to Tongol.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:00:45 +0000

Just curious about the mercury content… says above that Wild Planet Albacore contains 0.17ppm, yet in the Defenders of Wildlife study from 2009, it shows Trader Joe’s Tongol at 0.017ppm – and that’s a full order of magnitude (100x) less mercury. So is this just an inherent difference in Tongol vs. Albacore? If so, than at least on considerations of mercury load, Trader Joes has got Wild Planet beat by a mile simply from the type of tuna they use. I do realize there are myriad other benefits to the production methods of WP vs. TJ… just saying.

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By: Robin Zygelman

Robin Zygelman — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:50:43 +0000

I think it is great that there is a tuna company out there concerned about our planet not just their profits.

Too many other animals die because of longline fishing. Seabirds,such as albatrosses dive on the baited hooks. Sharks,and Loggerhead sea turtles get caught in the lines as they think it is an easy meal.

The Black Footed Albatross was recently put on the endangered species list because of longline fishing.The number of Loggerhead sea turtles that have died because of longline fishing is so great that they may go from the Threatened to Endngered list.

By: Joyce Russell

Joyce Russell — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:28:30 +0000

I am very impressed with the information about this product. Good for the planet; good for me!! Thanks for letting us know about Wild Planet Albacore Tuna.