Sustainable Sushi
We all love sushi don´t we?
Problem is that tuna especially blue finned tuna it is the best for sushi also over fished.
I have read about a company in Hawaii that has sustainable like aquaculture in the ocean with a local variety. Apparantly it is popular in the San Fransisco but I live quite far away from SF and Hawaii. So what can we do to get good fish for our sushi?
Last we did sushi we used a small kind of tuna with the flesh wthat as more pinkish than deep red. (blue finned tuna is large and the fastest fish around).
More organic vegetables is of course a choice.
Use slices of tofu or smoked for more flavour.
A Korean girl I meet in Sydney used some kind of sausage in her maki (sea weed rools).
Of course it would be great if one could find fresh MSC labelled fish in Portugal but that will probably take a long while ...
Shrimp is of course always nice but stay away from the tiger shrimp (unless they are grown in the Netherlands). Otherwise the aquaculture of tiger shrimp will just destroy the mangroves and make coastal arrives more prone to tsunamis and hurricanes, and the coastal water will probably be oxygen depleted...
Salmon is also great in sushi, but most of it is farmed and sofar has detrimental effects on the surrounding environment. Atlantic wild salmon is on the Endangered Species List in the US...
In the same link farmed atlantic cod is a health concern, the best choice seems to be Alaskan wild or farmed or any other pacific salmon seems to be a better choice, but fat chance of finding that in Portugal.
Anyone have any good ideas for what fish to use for sushi in Portugal?
posted by Johan @ 11:20
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2 Comments:
I thought the small tuna you mentioned, to replace the deep red blue finned tuna, was the one environmentalists were against catching because those fish nets would trap dolphins aswell. Do you know anything about this?
i dont know if there is any way of avoiding side catches with any kind of net. true, dolphins and turtles etc get caught in nets aimed for fish since they are so much larger than most kind of fish. what environmentalist probably are most against are the drifting nets, that not always are recovered and thus work as death traps for dolpins, turtles, sharks, fish, you name it ...
there are number of varieties of blue finned tuna but they are large, can be up to 500kg and 2m long. if caught by net, those nets too would catch dolphins and sharks. the nets for smaller tuna would of course catch more of other smaller fish and animals ...
i know that in EU (at least in Sweden) there are some restrictions on how small the net loops can be in order to avoid catching to small fish. that is done to make sure that the fish stock can rejuvenate, ie avoid killing off all the small fish that one day will become big fish.
but the nets for catching shrimp should catch just about all fish of any reasonable size ...
today there was an short item on the news about aquaculture in Portugal. if that could be done in a good manner, ie without resorting to antibiotics and growth factors, and avoiding the usual problems with down stream pollution and eutrophication ...
no easy solutions...
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