Sarah Wilson recently analysed the greenpeace investigation into Australian tuna. Like Sarah, I was a fan of Sirena. Now I’ll be rethinking my choice and saving money in the process.
Canned tuna is the biggest selling seafood item in Australia. As supermarkets sell more and more of this profitable product, tuna stocks are in a critical condition. Greenpeace is now putting pressure on supermarkets and consumers to take responsibility for this problem. Overfished species such as Bigeye and Yellowfin Tuna are ending up on Australian supermarket shelves. Greenpeace is encouraging supermarkets to switch to sustainably caught Skipjack Tuna.
And fishing methods introduced to protect dolphins kill endangered turtles and sharks. But consumers would not know this from the label on the can.
Care by knowing what you’re buying…
Even farmed tuna are problematic, and far green. Tuna when farmed have a negative yield, meaning they gain less weight than the mass off the food that they consume. If you want to get onto a great tuna alternative, try Kingfish. The fish has a POSITIVE yield, meaning that it gains more weight than it consumes, and is a truly sustainable fish well worth consuming. Connoisseurs will even tell you that farmed Kingfish actually taste better than wild. Check it out
Thanks Dan,
I knew farmed tuna wasn’t great but didn’t realize kingfish was such a big improvement. I’ll certainly be picking some up next time I visit angelakis
Kingfish it is then. Any decent websites which help consumers make better choices? (Melbourne suppliers etc)