Kick-start Your Sustainable Seafood Journey

Our partners, Ocean Wise Seafood, bring you 5 simple ways to get started.

Healthy, flourishing oceans into the future depend on us protecting biodiversity and ecosystems now.

An ecosystem consists of all the organisms and the physical environment with which they are linked to and interact with.

Choosing to serve only sustainable seafood is one way of fighting now for healthy oceans for generations to come – and you can start with five simple ways today!

Our oceans provide so much more than just food…

  • Functionally speaking, intact ocean ecosystems around the globe really are the lungs of the earth. Primary producers, tiny plants that photosynthesize to feed themselves, produce over 50 % of the oxygen found in the atmosphere – that’s the oxygen we need for every other breath we take (1).
  • Seafood is on the plates of about 3 billion people globally as an important source of protein, with hundreds of millions globally employed in the sector (2).
  • And every year, the ocean soaks up about one quarter of all the carbon dioxide (CO2) we emit into our atmosphere, helping to regulate some of the impacts of climate change (3).

But these benefits the ocean provides, sometimes referred to as ecosystem services, require an ecosystem which is healthy and in balance. When humans interfere too much with these systems, the balance is disrupted and the capacity of such ecosystems to provide for us is diminished overall.

Here are five easy ways to kick-start your sustainable seafood journey

  • Consider purchasing a sustainable seafood species that you have never tried before.
  • Incorporate seafood options from lower down the food chain – filter feeders like mussels, oysters, clams and scallops can be cost effective and fun to prepare at home. 
  • Try incredible and easy recipes from 16 partners chefs in the Cooking for Conservation cookbook  – you’ll learn how to cook some of the most sustainable species like a pro! 
  • Always ask your retailer where and how your seafood was caught or farmed and check the sourcing details in our Seafood Search to verify if it is sustainable: https://seafood.ocean.org/seafood/ 
  • Choose Ocean Wise recommended seafood items when you order from them: https://seafood.ocean.org/partners/ 

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