FishWise attended the Seafood Choices Alliance Seafood Summit in Paris which wrapped up early last week.
Seafood Source reported directly from the conference and here are two of the top stories;
Farmed salmon was a focus of the Seafood Summit. Fish feed was discussed early on - reducing the fish content in the feed has been a primary focus of some feed manufacturing companies – all the industry is eager to make gains in this field as it will make farming salmon much more sustainable. The industry is trying to move in the right direction, however there is a fine line between maximizing yield of the farmed salmon while minimizing the amount of wild fish they are fed, and trials are still being conducted to determine the best feed ratio. Read more about salmon here.
Chefs were also in attendance at the conference, and want to have more access to sustainability information about the seafood they source. A program called Pisces Responsible Fish Restaurants (Pisces-RFR) is trying to link small groups of fisherman to restaurants. While seafood is a global industry, more and more groups are trying to promote local and sustainable seafood. This project ranks the menus of restaurants on a scale, from the poor to the most sustainable. It will take restaurants a while to get to a “most sustainable” mark, but improvement is possible over the long term. Read more about this program here.
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