Monday 22 December 2008

Finally MSC certified shrimp/prawn fisheries

Guess I took my eye off this for a while. There are now three certified sustainable shrimp fisheries in the world.

http://www.msc.org/cook-eat-enjoy/fish-to-eat/msc-pink-shrimp/?searchterm=shrimp

Good news, shrimp without the guilt.

Now I just need to find where I can buy them in Hong Kong

Monday 1 December 2008

The end of the Atlantic Bluefin tuna in sight?

ICCAT, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, is a group responsible for the management of fisheries for tuna and related species in the atlantic ocean. The group has enraged conservationists by setting a bluefin tuna fisheries quota for 2009 of 22,000 tonnes, this is 7,000 tonnes higher than scientific advice. Reports are mentioning that the EU skuppered plans by the US to impose the correct limit.


This is really a horrible situation, the death of a magnificent species is at hand.

My suggestion. Write to Joe Borg, EU Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries and/or ICCAT. Contact details as follows:

Joe Borg email Cabinet-Borg@ec.europa.eu

ICCAT at email info@iccat.int or to the following address




ICCAT SECRETARIAT
Corazón de María, 8.
28002 Madrid,
SPAIN


Interesting articles on this subject at the following URL's
Telegraph newspaper
Treehugger.com

European commission news release. Noticable for not mentioning the scientific advice.