Ocean Friendly Sushi
While speaking at the 2008 Poptech conference, Carl Safina of the Blue Ocean Institute spoke about the impact we are having on the world’s fish stock.
In short, we are cleaning out the oceans.
While watching the speech, I was reminded of how a mine operates. you have a resource of value that is being sought, and to get to it you must extract a multiple of that resource.
Wrapping up his presentation he point out that while he himself is not looking to stop people from eating fish, he is looking to educate people about the conditions of fish that are eaten.
To that end, he has put together a guide called Ocean Friendly Sushi. Only 2 pages in length, the document has a lot of information packed into it about the fish you are eating and I suggest you take a look.
The Environmental Defense Fund has recently published a new Sushi Selector which lists choices by Japanese and English names, and ranks them according to whether fish are caught or farmed in an environmentally responsible way and if their contaminant levels pose a health risk.
Readers will have some pleasant suprises and some disappointments too…
You can find the guide here: http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=29774
Perrine.
This is pretty similar to the one I posted.. and I was disappointed with both. I really liked some of those on the list.
R