Here Is Everything You Need To Know About Sustainable Seafood

 



The trend of sustainable seafood began in the 1990s with growing consciousness, with the importance of protecting the source of wild food, good jobs, and healthy oceans. This trend was born through the realization that the world’s marine ecosystems are being over overexploited and destroyed. The 1992 collapse of Canada's Grand Banks cod fishery was a wake-up call, as well as one of the catalysts for the creation of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). Around 35,000 plant workers and fishermen from more than 400 coastal communities lost their jobs overnight when the cod fishery was laid off indefinitely.

Mexican social enterprise created a market for sustainable seafood in Mexico. The firm drives both supply and demand for sustainable seafood by providing training to the fisherman, as well as helping them sell their products in Mexico. Moreover, in February 2019, Mexico hosted the first Sustainable Seafood Roundtable to explore the opportunities for, and barriers to, sourcing sustainable, responsible seafood in Mexico. In August 2020, a Japanese fishery acquired the world's first certification for sustainable Bluefin tuna fishing.

Moreover, in 2018-19, around 805,000 tons of MSC-certified seafood were sold in European countries such as Germany, the United Kingdom, and France. Over 10 million tons of seafood worldwide comes from MSC certified sustainable fisheries. Sustainable seafood is a way to replenish oceans and manage their resources into the future. Sustainable fisheries target abundance species because they can breed early to maintain their populations. Sustainable seafood is high in protein, minerals, vitamins, and heart-healthy omega-3s while containing low amounts of harmful chemicals.

Overfishing is warming the world's oceans, reducing fish populations, and even some scientists predict that we'll have more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050. Now is the time to look at the human consumption of sea animals.


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