Sustainable Seafood Month

  We have contributed to this event organized by Jacqueline Church of Boston in the US.

The Boston Herald reports:

Give a man to fish, you've fed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you've fed him for life. Teach him to choose sustainable fish and we'll all eat better, longer.

Taking advantage of October's designation as National Seafood Month, Boston blogger, Jacqueline Church is renaming the month as Sustainable Seafood Month. Why?

Some frightening facts:

Atlantic Cod has been so overfished, some populations are listed as threatened or endangered.

Globally, it is estimated that 70% of the world’s major fisheries are already fished to capacity or overfished.

Three pounds of wild fish are used to produce one pound of farmed salmon. Farming salmon therefore actually uses more fish than it produces, which puts more pressure on wild populations.

Waste from salmon farms is released directly into the ocean, untreated. The Pure Salmon Campaign estimates this waste to be equivalent to untreated waste discharged from a city of 65,000 people.

Bluefin tuna in the Atlantic has been so overfished that the population has been reduced by 90% since the 1970's and is under threat of extinction.

As well as partnering with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch Program, Jacqueline Church is calling on chefs, food bloggers and cooks around the world to highlight choices any chef or cook can make to minimize the impact on overfished populations.

For more information: www.leatherdistrictgourmet.blogspot.com

Comments

[Jacqueline]

Hello!
I linked to your site in my most recent post on Suite101. Hope it drives folks to you. Stop by there and maybe start a discussion? Anyway, can't wait to try your Brodetto recipe!

Thanks,
Ciao and mille grazie
Jackie