Updates to the Sustainable Seafood Guide
Posted by kathryn in Ethics & Sustainablity
This week the Australian Marine Conservation Society released an updated version of its Sustainable Seafood Guide. The guide is available from their website (for $9.95) and includes a booklet and wallet sized summary of the best seafood choices, to avoid over-fished species.
Since the 1990s the number of over-fished species in Australia has nearly quadrupled. A situation which is mirrored internatlonally, with the collapse of marine environments and loss of seafood stocks. Buying sustainably caught fish is one way in which consumers can make a difference. help protect species and ensure the long-term health of our seas.
In the new updated guide:
- Orange roughy, southern blue-fin tuna, sea cage Atlantic salmon and barramundi are out
- Wild abalone, Moreton Bay bugs and coral trout are questionnable
- Bream, flathead and King George whiting are given the all-clear.
More information:
- The Sustainable Seafood Guide can be purchased from here
- The AMCS press release is here
- The SMH reported the story during the week
- The AMCS are also calling for better labelling of seafood in shops
25 August, 2007
Comments
We could do with something like this guide in the UK. We do have labelling schemes (the Marine Stewardship Council) but there’s no one reliable source for consumers to say buy this type of fish in preference to that one. A real shame and a wasted opportunity I think
The MSC also do the labelling scheme here in Australia. I don’t know about UK bodies, although Greenpeace or the World Wildlife Fund may have access to this information. I know last year the Australian World Wildlife Fund released some Christmas seafood guidelines.
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