ONE OF THE world’s best-known sustainability standards has been criticised by academics for being “too lenient”. A team of researchers analysed the formal objections that have been made to the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) in the past few years and concluded that the standard’s “principles [...]
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FEARS OF overfishing may put mackerel’s comeback on hold as customers face a tough choice between eating healthily and sustainably. What a difference two years make. This time in 2011, mackerel was riding on the crest of a wave – in plentiful supply, promoted as [...]
AFTER YEARS of being a popular sustainable choice, mackerel should no longer be appearing so regularly on menus. The oily fish, which is packed with Omega 3, has been removed from the Marine Conservation Society’s (MCS) latest Fish to Eat list and is now rated by the [...]
WORKPLACE CATERER CH&Co has committed to removing endangered fish from its menus and will promote the use of demonstrably sustainable fish, such as Marine Conservation Society ‘green list’ fish and Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified fish. It has also committed to achieving MSC chain of custody across all sites, to enable it to verify and [...]
THE SOIL Association has launched a new scheme to help caterers meet the standards in its Food for Life Catering Mark. The Food for Life Catering Mark provides assurance on health, animal welfare and environmental impact of food. Over 600,000 Catering Mark meals are [...]
M&J Seafood, the UKs largest independent seafood supplier, offers the widest range of fresh and frozen seafood in the foodservice market. From its network of 12 branches located throughout the UK, M&J Seafood is passionate about supplying customers with top quality fish and seafood, offering outstanding local service, a bespoke filleting service and unrivalled expert [...]
RESTAURANT ASSOCIATES and Alliance in Partnership (AiP) have become the latest caterers to achieve Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification. AiP had been purchasing MSC-certified fish for some time but, until it completed the ocean to plate traceability by becoming MSC certified, the fish could not [...]
CONSUMERS WILL be able to identify where they can buy sustainable fish in their area using a new interactive map. The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has produced the map, which spotlights which caterers, schools, restaurants and chippies are using MSC-certified fish. Across the UK, [...]
DURHAM UNIVERSITY has just become the first independently-catered university in the UK to offer its students MSC certified sustainable fish. The move towards Marine Stewardship Council certified status means that students in all 16 catered colleges now have the option to choose independently certified sustainable fish for the first time as part of their meals [...]
Expert analysis on mackerel by Paul Cox
By footprint on February 25, 2013
Published in: Comment, News Analysis and tagged Good to Eat list, Mackerel, Mackerel Quotas, MSC, National Marin Aquarium, Paul Cox.
IN RECENT years, mackerel has been celebrated by chefs and conservationists as healthy, cheap, sustainable and locally caught – the way out of our addiction to cod. We took to it with gusto and before we know it the species has been downgraded from the Marine Conservation Society’s “Good to Eat” list. [...]