Fish: Eating Ethically

If you are, or have been, members at the Vancouver Aquarium, or you have eaten at certain restaurants around Vancouver, then you have probably heard about Ocean Wise.  Ocean Wise is a label on seafood dishes that use sustainable seafood.  Sustainable seafood is that which is caught in a manner that does not damage the seafood habitat, does not cause overfishing of the seafood, and does not remove other species from the ocean that were not intended to be caught. If you would like to buy seafood that is harvested responsibly, here are some suggestions from Ocean Wise:

• Dungeness crab and King crab
• Greenland halibut
• Haddock caught with a line, not bottom trawl
• Pacific Halibut
• Lingcod (Buffalo cod, blue cod, white cod) from Alaska or British Columbia
• Pacific Mackerel
• Sablefish (Black cod, butterfish, skilfish)
• Salmon (all types) from British Columbia
• Humpback shrimp from British Columbia
• Spot prawn from British Columbia
• Striped bass
• Skipjack and Yellowfin tuna (if the product is canned, look for symbol to show it was caught in a responsible manner)

I hope that gets your tastebuds going! Enjoy some sustainable seafood this week! Not only is is good for the environment but it is also good for your body - seafood is rich in Vitamin D and Omega-3's.