celebrities

Ahem, If you'll excuse a wee bit of navel-gazing:

On Saturday, Oceana honored former President Bill Clinton along with Sting and his wife Trudie Styler for their longtime dedication to the environment at this year's annual Partners Award Gala in Los Angeles.

It was an exciting night. Along with speeches and awards, Sting gave a surprise performance, and Dustin Hoffman accompanied him onstage to play the piano.

Among the hosts were Keith Addis, who recently succeeded Beto Bedolfe as the chairman of the Oceana Board of Directors. Addis is a longtime environmentalist and the co-founder of Industry Entertainment, a leading management and production company.

Among the noteworthy in attendance: Ted Danson & Mary Steenburgen, Barbra Streisand and James Brolin, Pierce Brosnan and Keely Shaye Smith, Diane Keaton, Kirsten Dunst, Adrian Grenier, January Jones, Saffron Burrows, Zach Braff, Arianna Huffington, and Laird Hamilton.

Three of London's Nobu restaurants, a chain which is partly owned by Robert De Niro, have been secretly serving endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna, Charles Clover reports in the Telegraph. Bluefin tuna belly meat, or toro, is prized by many sushi chefs for its high fat content.

Nobu is apparently patronized by celebrities such as Madonna, Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. In other words, a very high profile place has been serving a mislabeled endangered species -- who knows how many others are doing the exact same thing.

While I would normally send you to our seafood guide and tell you to look out for bluefin, this article speaks to the larger, more complicated problem of how to place the blame. Who's at fault here? Not the consumers, they were misinformed. Was it the restaurant? The fishmonger? The fishermen? The government who makes the regulations? A global cultural apathy about the source of our seafood? Or some combination of the above?