Don't Eat Endangered Fish
Avoid eating overfished and threatened fish species.
By becoming aware of which wild fish are
being harvested to the brink of extinction, we can start to alter our fish
eating and buying habits and cease plundering an invisible ecosystem that is in
a state of serious decline and stress. Also, by becoming aware of the impact of
caged fisheries on our estuaries, bays, oceans, pond systems and wetlands will
help us make informed choices next time we are at the fish mongers.
Do it now!
Contact & join the Australian Marine Conservation
Society and get a copy of Australia's
Sustainable Seafood Guide (with a foreword by Tim Winton).
In the meanwhile...
Fish to avoid
- Blue Warehou (Trevally, Sea Bream, Snotty Trevalla)
- Broadbill Swordfish (Swordfish)
- Commercial Scallop (Tasmanian Scallop, Southern Scallop)
- Eastern Gemfish (Hake, King Couta, Silver Kingfish)
- Orange Roughy (Deep Sea Perch, Sea Perch)
- Oreas (Deep Sea Dory, Spotted Dory, Dory)
- Redfish (Nannygai, Red Snapper)
- School Shark (Flake, Snapper Shark, Tope)
- Silver Trevally (Silver Bream, White Trevally)
- Southern Bluefin Tuna (Tuna)
- Sharks & Rays (Flake, Boneless Fillet, Stingray Flaps)
Why this action
is
important
Establishing a sustainable balance in our harvesting of wild fisheries in the near future is essential to ward off the possibility of species collapse, and the ramifications this may have on our ocean, estuary and river ecosystems. To treat the ocean as a "magic pudding" while defiling the rivers and estuaries where fish breed and spawn is to live in a fool's paradise.