Sustainable seafood

[Datura]

Great post. Thank you very much

 

[killadoob]

No mcdonalds is not the same thing at all because those people fail to tell everyone they ate there 3 times a day.

If a super market is selling a certain fish and you think o this is nice looking fish, do you think o wait i better go see if its unsustainable? For some yes they will go and check out everything for others they see it there and buy it.

There is no label or warning sign about the unsustainable fish that i have seen? Why would i think pick n pay are selling unsustainable food to me? If that is ignorant then yes i am i will admit it.

 

[BCO]

No mcdonalds is not the same thing at all because those people fail to tell everyone they ate there 3 times a day.

If a super market is selling a certain fish and you think o this is nice looking fish, do you think o wait i better go see if its unsustainable? For some yes they will go and check out everything for others they see it there and buy it.

There is no label or warning sign about the unsustainable fish that i have seen? Why would i think pick n pay are selling unsustainable food to me? If that is ignorant then yes i am i will admit it.

See, this thread has now provided you with information about threatened fish as well as an easy-to-use SMS number that will help you with any information you require.

If you were unaware about sustainable fishing beforehand, you can't be blamed for that. That's why I made this post - not to preach to the converted, but to inform people who didn't know that some fish should not be bought and that there's a way to find out what those fish are.

Once a person has been informed of something and still chooses not to do anything about it, then they can be blamed for irresponsible consumerism.

 

[BCO]

A bit of thread necromancy, but here's an interesting article on global marine life populations:

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1914078,00.html?iid=digg_share

The two-year study, which broke the world's oceans into 10 major marine ecosystems, found improvement in half of them, where efforts to limit overfishing appeared to be working. But at the same time, the study found that 63% of the analyzed fish stocks worldwide were still in decline, and that exploitation will need to be reduced further if vulnerable species — like the rapidly disappearing Mediterranean bluefin tuna — are to avoid collapse.

Unsurprisingly, the regions where overfishing is being curbed tend to be areas that are well-off and well-governed, including Iceland, California and the Northeast Atlantic Shelf. That's heartening for those who like their fish sticks. Populations of cod and haddock in the Northeast Atlantic, once home to some of the richest fishing waters in the world, all but totally collapsed due to overfishing in the 1980s and 1990s, decimating the coastal towns' economy. The region, like several others, is beginning to recover, thanks to sustainable control measures like catch shares and no-take zones, which prevent overfishing.

The picture is less rosy in poorer parts of the world, especially along the African coast, where there are relatively few laws governing overfishing — and fewer still that are actually carried out.

 

[Mahado]

w00t w00t my hake diet is green YAY.

It's actually farmed Hake and most of the fish farms around the globe don't have good enviro policies and help spread things like Sea lice. Not to mention the common fish like Salmon and Hake are given growth hormones too just like your everyday non free range beef, chicken etc since they're one of the most popular fishes around / in high demand

 

[LancelotSA]

Any idea what kind of tuna is used for our sushi? I know that the bluefin tuna harvested by the Japs for their sushi is under severe pressure. I shudder to think what the demand created by the recent SA sushi fad is doing to salmon and tuna fish stocks.

An oldish thread that has been dug up so thought I'd add my comment to this.... the one thing in defence of sushi is that a single salmon or tuna can make a whole stack of california rolls!

And to add to this I am doing my bit as I usually partake in sushi specials which usually means very little, or no, salmon.