Eureka Street: “Time to start worrying about fish”

How much do we think about what you eat? When you say grace before each meal do you think about how far your food had travelled to reach your plate? Do you understand how greater impact on the environment the meal you are sitting down to eat has had? Is the information available to us; or do we just not want to know the full story?

Sarah Burnside, writing for Eureka Street, has the following insights into the global fishing industries:

“There is a growing awareness that the scale of the global fishing industry is unsustainable. Fishing is second only to climate change as the greatest environmental threat to marine ecosystems.

The excesses of the fishing industry — a product of the focus on short-term financial gain over long-term sustainability — have dramatically depleted the ocean’s supply of fish. Impacts on ordinary consumers, the global fishing industry and whole species of underwater creatures could be devastating…”

Read more here: http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=17331