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How To Protect Our Oceans For Future Generations?
Choosing Sustainable Seafood

Calling all seafood enthusiasts and ocean advocates! Your love for seafood can ignite a powerful force for positive change.
By understanding the issues facing our oceans and choosing sustainable seafood, you can become a vital part of the solution.
Your choices can help reduce overfishing, protect marine habitats, support sustainable fishing practices and transform supply chains!

DID YOU KNOW?

  • By choosing sustainable seafood, you’re not just indulging your taste buds; you’re actively contributing to the resilience of our oceans.
  • Your choices can ensure that your favourite seafood remains on menus and at seafood vendors for time to come!

Why does choosing Green help?

BY CHOOSING GREEN-LISTED SEAFOOD SPECIES YOU

  • Choose seafood from healthy population
  • Reduce demand for vulnerable species
  • Protect ecosystems by allowing over-exploited species to recover
  • Support fisheries with responsible and sustainable practices
  • Choose seafood caught or farmed with minimal environmental damage
  • Avoid supporting irresponsible or harmful fishing or farming practices
  • Avoid supporting bycatch – unwanted catch of other marine species/animals

GREEN ALTERNATIVES

Are you a sucker for salmon sushi or perhaps keen on a piece of red roman,
yet you are torn by the decision as both are on the WWF-SASSI Orange list?

You’ll be glad to know that South African rainbow trout is a perfect salmon sushi alternative!
And that Cape bream/hottentot is a delicious red roman equivalent!

In fact, there are many amazing seafood alternatives that are both sustainable and tasty.

WWF-SASSI identified some common seafood favourites and appropriate Green-listed alternatives to encourage more adventurous ordering when you’re eating out and inspire your creative cooking genius.

Try these tasty, sustainable seafood alternatives the next time you are ordering or preparing your favourite seafood dish.

Cape Salmon, Sole, Cape Dory

Cape Salmon and other game fish

Santer, Cod or even Kingklip when lightly cured and firm

Santer, Panga, Red Roman, Carpenter, White Stumpnose

Horse Mackerel (demersal trawl)

NZ barracouta

Norwegian Salmon, especially good for sushi

Other Tuna, Swordfish, other game fish

Game fish, Cape Salmon and Tuna in sushi

Any shellfish

HOLD WWF-SASSI MEMBERS ACCOUNTABLE

You can encourage WWF-SASSI retailers, suppliers and big seafood franchises to stick to their commitments by:

  • Requesting your seafood retailers, suppliers or restaurants to stock products that are certified by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) or Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC)
  • Engaging directly with retailers, suppliers or restaurants if seafood product labelling does not show the species’ common name, scientific name, country of origin, and capture or production method

You can also encourage retailers, suppliers and restaurants not working with WWF-SASSI by asking about their seafood sustainability plans.

Sustainable seafood recipes

You don’t need to be an award-winning chef to cook sustainable seafood…
That is because WWF-SASSI has joined with chefs from all over South Africa to help you cook-up and plate delicious and inspiring dishes in your own home.

It’s never been easier to cook sustainable seafood at home!

see all available sustainable seafood recipes

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