Living Oceans Society is proud to help Canada’s largest sushi provider, Bento Nouveau provide ocean-friendly sushi options to Canadians from coast to coast.
Across Canada, you can find SeaChoice stickers on Bento products that identify Green and Yellow items from the SeaChoice sushi guide. Bento sells sushi in over 1,000 locations, including Canadian grocery stores, cafeterias, malls and food courts.
Closed containment aquaculture offers a viable, sustainable alternative to the environmental impacts of net pen salmon farming. The top Canadian food retailers have joined with SeaChoice to embrace this new technology by asking the government to financially support closed containment innovations.
Retail industry giants, including Overwaitea Food Group, Safeway and Loblaws have written to to Canadian government officials expressing their support for closed containment and the need for federal support of this opportunity for sustainable aquaculture development.
Living Oceans Society works to protect the ocean by improving fisheries policy and management. Sometimes, we do this by writing scientific reports: Our campaigners have co-authored How We Fish Matters, a report on the ecological impacts of Canadian fishing gears, and another on bycatch in the British Columbia trawl fishery.
One of the fastest growing sectors of the seafood market is sushi. Ranging from high end sushi bars serving up endangered bluefin to little mom and pop operations where you may not always be sure what’s in the California roll, the sushi world has some major sustainability challenges. We are seeing a shift in sushi sustainability in Canada too. Companies like Bento, Tomiyama and Tokyo Express are getting on board with SeaChoice to provide sustainable options to their customers.
Through the SeaChoice program we are working with businesses along the seafood supply chain to shift the industry towards sustainability.
Our oceans are in trouble and the seafood we eat is a major culprit. Unsustainable fishing and aquaculture threatens not only the fish and seafood we eat, but also habitat, biodiversity and food webs – the building blocks of healthy ocean ecosystems.
But our seafood choices can help rather than harm the ocean. These tools make it easy.
Living Oceans is an active stakeholder in the Aquaculture Stewardship Certification process, responding to every application for certification in Canada and participating in the scheme's various projects to revise the Salmon Standard.
ASC's Salmon Standard was created through a formal dialogue with industry. It was only implemented in 2015; almost immediately, we began to notice problems.
No matter where you live, seafood is one of the most common—and tasty—ways to connect to the ocean. At Living Oceans Society we are proud shoppers of fish and shellfish.
And like a growing number of Canadians, we’re also concerned about how fishing and aquaculture practices are pushing some ocean ecosystems to the brink of collapse. Overfished stocks, damaging gears, unintended bycatch, chemical use and the spread of disease; it’s enough to make you lose your appetite.
English
Français