Sustainable Seafood Day Australia
Working together for a future full of fish
March 16 is the MSC’s Sustainable Seafood Day in Australia, and is your chance to help celebrate and reward wild-caught fisheries that have been independently proven to be sustainable against the exacting MSC standard for well managed and sustainable fisheries.
Now into its 6th year, Sustainable Seafood Day provides an opportunity for consumers, restaurants and cafes, food service operators and the seafood supply chain as a whole to work together to celebrate and reward the fishers that have been proven to be fishing sustainably.
Last year thousands of Australians and more than 150 restaurants, cafes and canteens around the country took part, and we are hoping for bigger and better things again this year. The success of last year’s event highlights the growing strength of consumer preferences for certified sustainable seafood in Australia, and the role of restaurants, cafes and canteens in helping to satisfy that demand.
Working together to help reward MSC certified fisheries is easy. Just serve and/or eat MSC certified seafood on the day. Look for the blue MSC ecolabel.
There are currently four MSC certified fisheries in Australia, including the West Australian rock lobster fishery, the South Australian Lakes and Coorong fishery (yellow eye mullet, mulloway, perch and pipis), the Spencer Gulf king prawn fishery and the HIMI mackeral icefish fishery. In total there are approximately 135 MSC certified fisheries around the world.
