Buy Seafood to Help Revitalise the Ocean and Ecosystems [Step 6 of 8]

Welcome to part 8 of our mini series on Conscious Buying Decisions to Help Climate Change. Last time we covered ‘Choose Meat and Dairy That’s Regenerating Land to Help Our Planet’. This time we’re looking at ‘Buying Seafood to Help Revitalise the Ocean and Ecosystems’, which is also part of our series on Eating Sustainably.

You can find all content in this mini series at Mini Series: Conscious Buying Decisions to Help Climate Change.

If you already know that you have the power to help climate change and improve your health and happiness, here are the options to make conscious decisions when buying food and drink:

1. Check out #VoteWithOurMoney with 6 Steps to Help Stop Climate Change
2. Try the Sustainability Roadmap with 40+ Solutions to Climate Change
3. Use the Company Directory to Help You Grow, Eat, and Live Sustainably

If you want some more facts before making any decisions, let’s get into the details:

Before we get started, it’s worth saying that this mini series is based on the Kiss the Ground Purchasing Guide. Many of the facts come from the book called Drawdown.

Find the Book Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed To Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken That You Can Find Here on Amazon*

There are 8 Steps To Eat for Your Health and the Climate:

1. Knowing Your Food Source
2. Growing Your Own
3. Composting
4. Choosing Meat That’s Regenerating Land
5. Choosing Dairy That’s Regenerating Land
6. Buying Seafood to Help Revitalise the Ocean and Ecosystems
7. Knowing Your Annuals and Perennials
8. Going Beyond the Healthiest Foods

In this piece we’re looking at step 6, Buying Seafood to Help Revitalise the Ocean and Ecosystems.

The oceans are acidifying because they’re forced to absorb carbon dioxide due to global warming. Ocean acidification is leading to the extinction of species and the bleaching of coral.

At the same time as the oceans acidifying, harmful fishing techniques and pollution have caused almost complete ecosystem failure in some places. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation has reported that most fisheries around the world are now declining.

There are also man-made dead zones where there isn’t enough oxygen in the water for life to survive. Dead zones are primarily caused by nitrogen fertiliser runoff from farms with poor erosion control.

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We’re at a tipping point when it comes to the world’s oceans. It’s up to us to be aware of the fish we’re eating, how it was fished, and where it was caught.

What can you do? Every time you eat from a farm that is taking care of its soil, you’re also helping to restore and protect local waterways (and ultimately the ocean) from toxic chemical runoff. Plus, farms with healthy soil that are sequestering carbon help reverse global warming and ocean acidification.

Ways To Support Healthier Fish and Water Ecosystems

You can buy sustainable fish from Abel & Cole.

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Here are Some Other Ways To Support Healthier Fish and Water Ecosystems:

1. Check the Good Fish Guide by the Marine Conservation Society
2. Look for a Sustainable Seafood Certification logo, like MSC or Organic
3. Avoid farmed fish that are being fed conventional soy and corn
4. Fish in poorly constructed farms are often sick (can pass disease to wild fish)
5. Check out the Sustainable Seafood Coalition of UK businesses
6. Support the removal of dams, and other efforts to restore rivers
7. Learn about ocean remediation projects

There are some amazing people and projects helping to restore native habitat and provide food for us to eat, such as re-planting kelp in the oceans (kelp can grow more than 30cm a day, sequestering carbon in the process!).

That’s it for this piece on buying seafood to help revitalise the ocean and ecosystems. You can find the next piece ‘Know Your Annuals and Perennials to Eatwell’ as well as all articles in this 10-part mini series at Conscious Buying Decisions to Help Climate Change.

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Suggested Reading

If you like the topic of this mini series, you might be interested in these reading suggestions with links to each book on Amazon.

Find Kiss the Ground by Josh Tickell Here on Amazon*

Find Soil Will Save Us by Kristin Ohlson Here on Amazon*

Find Soil, Grass, Hope by Courtney White Here on Amazon*

Find Dawn Again: Tracking the Wisdom of the Wild by Markegard and Doniga Here on Amazon*

Find Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken Here on Amazon*

Find Diet for a Hot Planet by Anna Lappé Here on Amazon*

Find Cows Save the Planet: And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth by Judith D. Schwartz Here on Amazon*

Find Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life by David Montgomery Here on Amazon*

Here Is What You Can Do

• Use this mini series to help you buy products that help people and planet
• Check out #VoteWithOurMoney with 6 Steps to Help Stop Climate Change
• Try the Sustainability Roadmap with 40+ Solutions to Climate Change
• Use the Company Directory to Help You Grow, Eat, and Live Sustainably
• Be inspired. We can help climate change if we do something about it
• Talk to your friends and colleagues
• Share this with others

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Production Notes

This was produced by me, James Walters, as a personal project to help stop climate change by inspiring others to grow, eat, and live sustainably.

Any advice given is the opinion of those involved and does not constitute medical, financial, or legal advice.

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