Category: Sustainable Seafood

Seafood supply chains are complicated. A single seafood item can travel from one country to the next, on boats and freight trucks, to the processing facility, to the domestic distributor, to the international distributor and… you get the idea.Having so many points in the supply chain can lead to some murky dealing. The complexity of … Continued

Tireless. Inspiring. Innovative. These are just a few ways to describe Guy Dean, vice president and chief sustainability officer at Albion Farms and Fisheries and long-time Ocean Wise seafood partner. Today, he was awarded the Seafood Champion Award for Leadership at the SeaWeb Seafood Summit in Barcelona. The word “deserving” can be added to that … Continued

Some 350 metres above Toronto’s downtown, big changes are happening. Toronto’s highest restaurant inside the CN Tower is now a proud partner of the Ocean Wise Seafood program. At 360 The Restaurant at the CN Tower, you can now find the Ocean Wise symbol beside an assortment of sustainable options from both Canadian coasts. With a … Continued

“Is this fish farmed or wild?” Restaurant servers often field this question from diners, who are quickly reassured that the fish they’re about to consume is indeed wild. But why are wild fish considered superior to farmed? Is wildness a measure of seafood quality? Many of us have a knee-jerk negative responses to Atlantic salmon … Continued

Seafood has always been a highly celebrated mainstay in many Chinese cuisines, and the Ocean Wise Seafood program has turned to underscoring a number of sustainable seafood options that are familiar within the Chinese culinary community to inspire chefs and diners to choose and favour more seafood options that help support the health and resiliency … Continued

For the first time ever, the Ocean Wise seafood program is adding a tech company to its growing list of partner restaurants, retailers and dogfood suppliers. Transparent Kitchen, a start-up from Ottawa, is an interactive multimedia platform where users can explore beautiful photos, enticing ingredients, detailed menus and more from their favourite restaurants and chefs. … Continued

When Julia Child brought French cuisine into American homes in the 1960s, she introduced millions of consumers to new seafood species as well. Monkfish, for instance, became instantly popular across the United States following  Child’s famous recipe and later this led to overfishing and mismanagment of the species. In Taras Grescoe’s award-winning non-fiction book Bottomfeeder: … Continued

Four years ago, Nomad restaurant opened with a 100% Ocean Wise menu that featured items like Northern Divine white sturgeon caviar and Arctic char, both raised inland to reduce environmental impacts. Over the coming years and seasons, the number of Ocean Wise-approved seafood items at Nomad changed, growing to include other species such as Humboldt … Continued

新年快樂 ! (Happy New Year! Cantonese: san1 nin4 faai3 lok6, Mandarin: xīn nián kuài lè) Lunar New Year celebrations are off to a delicious and sustainable start. On February 3, 2018  five award-winning chefs celebrated Feast of Fortune at the JW Marriott Parq Vancouver, an annual fundraising event in support of St. Paul’s Foundation. With Ocean … Continued