I attended a function with Whole Foods Market and Tsar Nicoulai Caviar on a beautiful summer afternoon in February. Beside eating our California farmed oysters provided by Pacific Seafood and Tsar Nicoulai award winning smoked sturgeon and caviar (and sturgeon pate’, lettuce, and more award winning smoked sturgeon); I had the opportunity to sit down with Carrie Brownstein, Global Seafood Quality Standards Coordinator for Whole Foods Market and Hana Wilms, Farm Operations Coordinator at Tsar Nicoulai Caviar. We spoke on a number of issues around animal welfare associated with fish husbandry and processing and how both organizations align themselves on this front.
