Posts tagged "sharks"

Wreaking Haddock: How To Eat Sustainable Seafood

It’s World Oceans Day and there’s commotion in the Ocean. If we all don’t start eating seafood in a sustainable way, the oceans may be out of fish by 2048. Three strikes and you’re trout. Or hear what Umbra has to say about whats on your plate and in the ocean. You’ll want to follow these guidelines hook, line and sinker.

Umbra on Tuna and Mercury

http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-…

Director of Seafood Choices Alliances

http://www.grist.org/comments/interac…

OTHER LINKS:
Join Oceana to help protect the Worlds oceans.

http://www.oceana.org

Support the New York Aquarium

http://www.nyaquarium.com/

Shrimp Suck!

http://shrimpsuck.blogspot.com/

SEAFOOD GUIDES
Blue Ocean Institute Seafood Guide – http://www.oceana.org/fileadmin/ocean…
iPhone App from the Monterey Bay Aquarium

http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr…

Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch Pocket Guides

http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr…

Another cool guide for the visually inclined:

http://neilbanas.com/seafood.html

A Guide to Grocery Stores that Protect You From Mercury

http://www.oceana.org/gl/

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Tuna Fisheries in Indonesia Go Eco-Friendly

Tuna industries in Indonesia are turning to friendly fishing. The world tuna industry has been widely blamed for killing endangered sea life, such as turtles, sharks and sea birds.
The sea-life killing culprits are the longline and purse seine nets they use. The nets drag and dredge the sea bed, taking everything along with the prized tuna, a staple in most menus.

However, the Nutrindo fishery in Bitung, North Sulawesi in Indonesia is using the hand line rather than longline in their 25 boats for two weeks to one month.

Fishery owner Hartono Tjandrason says the reason he chose the handline was to avoid catching in sealife except for tuna.

[Hartono Tjandrason, Fishery Owner]:
“In this fishing industry, we need development sustainability, resources sustainability. So, without resources we would not have development. We have to maintain this circle.

His fishery exports a ton of yellow fin tuna to Japan daily and some 100 tons to United States a month.

Bas Zaunbrecher, of ANOVA, a Netherlands-based tuna fishery that operates in Bali’s waters says most of his customers in Japan and the U.S. demand environmentally friendly seafood products.

[Bas Zaunbrecher, ANOVA]:
“More and more of our customers they require fish from sustainable sources. So it is actually a must for the future and also if things are not being controlled properly in the future, we will not have any resources anymore to buy our product from.

His company’s long line of fleets have replaced traditional J-shaped hooks, which fish and turtles tend to swallow, with various sizes of circular hooks.

Endangered sea turtles accidentally caught by fishermen off Indonesia’s sea coasts usually die, but innovative hooks that are too big to swallow are increasingly saving the reptiles’ lives.

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Cruel Treatment of Wildlife

Sharks and Rays killed for no reason. shocking.

“Unfortunately, poor fisheries management and wasteful, destructive fishing practices are decimating the world’s fisheries, as well as destroying marine habitats and incidentally killing billions of fish and other marine animals each year.

But you can help change this. Consumer demand for sustainable seafood can act as an extremely powerful incentive for better fisheries management. If you buy or ask for seafood that comes from sustainable sources, you are helping to protect our marine environment and, at the same time, ensuring that seafood can be enjoyed for many years to come.” http://www.worldwildlife.org/

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