Seafood Watch App - for sustainable eaters

Last week, one of my clients showed me this very interesting iPhone app called Seafood Watch. It is a good app to have if you are a fish or seafood eater in general. It allows you to become a more conscious about the impact of our eating habits in the environment by showing the different kinds of fish that are going extinct. You can do a search by name or by sustainability categories such as: "Best Choice", "Good Alternative" and "Avoid". They also give a summary of the seafood including where it comes from, how it is raised and harvested (farmed or in the wild), etc.

In addition, there is the  Project FishMap, where you'll be able to share the locations of restaurants, sushi places and markets where you’ve found sustainable seafood. As the map grows, you’ll also be able to see what others have found near you. So hopefully, this can help us become more ocean-friendly! However, this app should not make you think that if you're eating a sustainable source of seafood, you could eat too much of it. Portion is key. As my father always said and I've already mentioned it  in the blog a few times: "the difference between poison and medicine is in the dose". Eating too much of ocean-friendly fish, is of no help at all. The world is getting crazier day by day and money unfortunately still rules it. And profit is the only thing that men see right now, there will be an end. That end is soon, scientists state that by 2050, the stock of fish will come to an end. So if you are a heavy fish eater, you better eat less.