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How to be seafood legal

27 May 2008 Regardless of whether you are a recreational angler, a commercial fisher, a seafood restaurant owner or even a consumer, there are laws and regulations that may apply to you when it comes to the harvesting and buying or selling of seafood. These regulations have been put in place to try and maintain the exploitation of these resources at sustainable levels....read more

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FishMS

27 May 2008 Your choices today will affect what is available to you in the future. SASSI FishMS, a world first, enables you to make the on-the-spot choice when dining out. How does it work? Send the name of the fish as a text message to the number 079-499-8795 you will get a prompt response telling you where the species is on the...read more

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Why Sustainable Seafood?

23 Jul 2008 Seafood Reconsidered - More and more people are considering seafood as a healthy and alternative natural protein source. In a time when many consumers regard products from conventional commercial land based farms with increasing suspicion, seafood is growing in popularity. Spurred on by the globalisation of markets, seafood has become the most traded commodity in...read more

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The SASSI list

27 Sep 2008 The SASSI List - The consumer species list tells you about which seafood species are legal and more sustainable choices from South African seafood populations. Green species are the best choices as they can handle current fishing pressure better. Orange species should be considered with caution as they are either over-exploited, or from problematic fisheries. Red species...read more

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Consumers

27 May 2008 Consumers: How to make smarter seafood choices - Before buying or enjoying seafood there are a number of things to consider: Buy from the right people: make sure that you buy your seafood from reputable dealers who buy only from registered commercial fishers and importers. Remember that recreational fishers may never sell their catch. Buy the right...read more

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Shoreline Cafe @ Two Oceans Aquarium

18 Jul 2008 Shoreline Cafe @ Two Oceans Aquarium - Victoria and Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town Shoreline Café prides itself on being eco-friendly and environmentally-friendly measures are being introduced wherever possible. Diners won’t automatically receive straws with their cooldrinks in this establishment; given that straws are one of the major litter items on our beaches, the Aquarium’s management...read more

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MSC Sustainable Seafood Lunch

15 Dec 2009 Ocean Basket joins SASSI Partnership by hosting global Sustainable Seafood Lunch - The Ocean Basket restaurant chain recently became a partner of WWF’s Southern African Sustainable Seafood Initiative’s (SASSI) Participation scheme, which aims to limit the impact of the seafood industry on marine resources. The partnership was announced at the South African leg of the global Sustainable Seafood Lunch,...read more

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SASSI FAQ

31 Jul 2008 SASSI FAQ’s: - 1. Is seafood the perfect food? Nutritious, low in fats and available in a variety of delicious forms, flavours and textures seafood is often advertised as the perfect food. More people are choosing to eat seafood and to meet this growing demand more fish and shellfish are being caught and farmed than ever...read more

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Take Action

1 Jan 2006

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Not on the list?

24 Jul 2008 Not on the list? - Some imported species are not yet included on the SASSI list. A good place to find out more about any fish is FishBase (http://fishbase.org/search.cfm) where you can learn about the name, distribution and biology of a particular fish. A fish species may also be listed on other sustainable seafood lists. ...read more

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