Orange Roughy Advancing along
Sea Port’s
Go Blue! Seafood Sustainability Spectrum
Sea Port conducted a sustainability assessment for the New
Zealand Orange Roughy fishery in order to reveal the existing and potential
environmental impacts and risks that were associated with producing this
delicacy for human consumption. This allowed us to establish its starting
position along our progressive Go Blue! Seafood Sustainability Spectrum (see
needle on spectrum above). This assessment was only a single snapshot in
time, therefore, we are continuously reassessing all the sustainability
determinants and moving the needle along the spectrum as needed to reflect both
the positive and negative developments for this fishery.
Sea
Port is announcing the advancement of the New Zealand Orange Roughy needle along
our spectrum towards becoming more sustainable due to advances in data
collection for a major portion of the New Zealand fishing grounds.
Rationale for this decision:
- New Biomass data has been collected using sophisticated sonar and underwater video for a major portion of the New Zealand Orange Roughy fishing grounds.
- In addition to biomass size and distribution data, spawning behavior has been observed and tracked.
- State of the art sonar and underwater video will continue to advance the collection of important data for additional Orange Roughy fishing grounds
Sea Port believes that because of these ongoing high tech data collection accomplishments, a major portion of this fishery is moving towards becoming more sustainable and because of this the needle will be moved along our Go Blue! Seafood Sustainability Spectrum.
New Position:
