Catch of the day
Subtitle: choosing seafood for healthier oceans
By: Brian Halweil ; Lisa Mastny, editor.
Contributors: Mastny, Lisa.; Worldwatch Institute.
Series: State of the world library; Worldwatch paper -- 172
Publisher: Worldwatch Institute
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Number of pages: 75
ISBN-13: 9781878071804
Subjects: Fishery management -- Citizen participation.; Seafood industry -- Marketing -- Environmental aspects.; Seafood -- Health aspects.; Visproducten.; Visstand.; Ecologische aspecten.; Consumentengedrag.
Other titles: Choosing seafood for healthier oceans
Description: "At a time when international treaties, restrictive quotas, and global regulation of fleets have proven ineffective in protecting beleaguered fish populations, a surprising ally is emerging to tackle the growing fisheries crisis. Buyers of seafood--including individual consumers, school cafeterias, supermarket chains, and large food processors--are choosing to avoid threatened or problematic species in favor of fish that are caught or raised with less impact on the world's oceans. While some seafood lovers are concerned about guaranteeing the future availability of popular fish, others wish to preserve the quality of today's seafood by knowing more about how and where it is caught.  As more of our daily food options originate in factories, fish remains the last wild food we consume in large quantities and one of our few remaining direct connections to the natural world" -- summary (p.5)
Table of contents: title: New hope for old victims; title: The shifting baseline; title: Making better choices; title: When the fisher is the eater; title: Beyond fillets; title: Beyond fishing.; title: Figure 1 : Top fish species harvested worldwide, 2003; title: Figure 2 : World exports of fish and fish products, 1976-2004; title: Figure 3 : World fish harvest, 1950-2003; title: Figure 4 : World fish harvest per person, 1950-2003; title: Table 1 : Fish consumption in top five countries or regions, 1961 and 2003; title: Sidebar 1 : Some facts about the world's fish; title: Sidebar 2 : What aquariums worldwide are doing; title: Sidebar 3 : What's a seafood lover to do?; title: Sidebar 4 : Racing for fish vs. sharing the fish; title: Sidebar 5 : Proposed fisheries policy reforms.