Seafood

A huge increase in the amount of seafood taken out of the sea in recent decades means that our global fish stocks are dramatically (and in many cases irrevocably) depleted.

Sustainable seafood is also about how seafood is traded – how it’s bought and sold and how it ends up on your plate. In South Africa, the Southern African Sustainable Seafood Initiative (SASSI) started in 2004, and has taken a brilliantly simple green (good), orange (tread with caution) and red (avoid altogether) ‘traffic light’ approach.