I was wondering if you guys have seen this movie? How concerned should I be when choosing canned seafood?
This movie is always in the back of my mind when buying canned sardines. I wish there was better transparency.
by rush2me
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Icy-Conclusion-3500
You can generally figure out where they’re fished from, and then you can look up the health of that fishery.
EljayDude
So some of the producers say exactly how things are caught and where and you can kind of sanity check versus [https://www.seafoodwatch.org](https://www.seafoodwatch.org) and see what you think. I feel like generally speaking the higher end stuff is all from regions where fishing is controlled to an extent nothing too bad is going on.
But we all have our own thresholds. Like some people don’t eat octopus, but as far as I can tell nobody really catches it on purpose, it’s a bycatch and if we don’t eat it it just becomes bait. That’s definitely the case with Wildfish cannery, they buy it from a particular fisherman who saves it out for them (they’re attracted to things like crab and cod pots).
If you’re buying from the low end you’re going to get a lot less transparency really with all the food you eat.
aspiring_bureaucrat
This was profoundly disturbing
I would gladly sacrifice eating any seafood that relies on dredge fishing
blessings-of-rathma
Go to seafoodwatch.org and enter your favourite food fish. It will tell you which fisheries are managed well and sustainable, and which ones are overfished or have a lot of problems with bycatch or habitat destruction. They are a conservation-driven project rather than industry.
(Hate to break it to this sub but Mediterranean sardines and Portuguese-run sardine fisheries specifically are not good.)
They will also give information on fisheries that are certified by industry programs such as the Marine Stewardship Council. You can look for the MSC logo on wild-caught seafood products as well.
mrdeworde
Sardine just refers to an order of small oily fish, so as others have said below, you need to know where they’re fished from to know if it’s sustainable or not; the sites linked by others can help. Some stocks are super imperiled, others are improving/sustainable IIR.
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You can generally figure out where they’re fished from, and then you can look up the health of that fishery.
So some of the producers say exactly how things are caught and where and you can kind of sanity check versus [https://www.seafoodwatch.org](https://www.seafoodwatch.org) and see what you think. I feel like generally speaking the higher end stuff is all from regions where fishing is controlled to an extent nothing too bad is going on.
But we all have our own thresholds. Like some people don’t eat octopus, but as far as I can tell nobody really catches it on purpose, it’s a bycatch and if we don’t eat it it just becomes bait. That’s definitely the case with Wildfish cannery, they buy it from a particular fisherman who saves it out for them (they’re attracted to things like crab and cod pots).
If you’re buying from the low end you’re going to get a lot less transparency really with all the food you eat.
This was profoundly disturbing
I would gladly sacrifice eating any seafood that relies on dredge fishing
Go to seafoodwatch.org and enter your favourite food fish. It will tell you which fisheries are managed well and sustainable, and which ones are overfished or have a lot of problems with bycatch or habitat destruction. They are a conservation-driven project rather than industry.
(Hate to break it to this sub but Mediterranean sardines and Portuguese-run sardine fisheries specifically are not good.)
They will also give information on fisheries that are certified by industry programs such as the Marine Stewardship Council. You can look for the MSC logo on wild-caught seafood products as well.
Sardine just refers to an order of small oily fish, so as others have said below, you need to know where they’re fished from to know if it’s sustainable or not; the sites linked by others can help. Some stocks are super imperiled, others are improving/sustainable IIR.