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4 Steps to get ready to shop
1.Choose your fishmonger
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The first step in deciding what
to buy is to choose a good fishmonger, making sure that they
are willing and able to provide all the necessary information.
European regulations require that the following information
must be indicated on the label and it is
therefore your right to know:
• what is the name of this
fish?
• where is it from?
• was it caught wild or farmed?
• how was it caught or raised?
Don't be shy or embarrassed, professionals like to have curious
and interested customers!
Here are a few questions you can
ask your fishmonger:
Fish with a short life cycle:
Which species reproduce quickly
and which ones take many years to reach adulthood?
Always try to choose fish with a short life cycle
so you don't wipe out decades of life when you buy! What's
more, larger and longer-living fish accumulate greater quantities
of the toxic substances in our seas.
Endangered species:
Is the fish we want to buy at risk
of extinction?
Find out which fish populations are threatened, and
avoid eating them all together until stocks are able to reach
a healthy level once again.
Shark on your plate:
Is this fish actually shark?
Did you know that in Italy palombo, verdesca,
smeriglio and vitella di mare all mean shark?
Tens of millions of sharks are killed every year and eliminating
this important predator from the food chain can disturb the
balance of the entire marine ecosystem.
Intensive acquaculture:
Was it intensively farmed?
The concentration of large numbers of fish in limited
areas makes them more susceptible to disease and parasites,
so they are treated with prophylactic antibiotics. Furthermore
the fish effluent and feed from intensively farmed systems
change the chemistry of the water and harm the surrounding
ecosystems.
Intensive acquaculture:
Was this fish raised in an intensive
fish farm?
The concentration of large numbers of fish in limited
areas makes them more susceptible to disease and parasites,
and so they are treated with prophylactic antibiotics. Furthermore
the fish effluent and feed from intensively farmed systems change
the chemistry of the water and harm the surrounding ecosystems.
Herbivores and carnivores:
Which fish are herbivores and
which are carnivores?
Fish farms need enormous numbers of wild fish to
feed carnivorous fish... So it isn't necessarily true that
fewer wild fish are caught if more fish are farmed!
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