Seafood Crisis! SA Restaurants Can Help

“Ahead of the announcement of the winner of the 2017 Eat Out Woolworths Sustainability Award later this year, we’ll be running a series of articles highlighting ways that restaurants can be more sustainable. In the second of this series, we look at the current crisis facing our seafood stocks.”

— Eat Out

In South Africa, seafood is one of the most popular foods when eating out, whether at a fine-dining restaurant or a casual fish shop, but our seas are suffering. Over the last few years there has been a dramatic increase in the numbers of fish and other marine life removed from the seas. Globally, many fish stocks are already fully fished or overexploited. The endangered West Coast Rock Lobster is now officially on SASSI’s red list – and without intervention, experts believe we’ll lose the species in the next five years.