The smell of dried or fresh seafood makes up much of the Fragrant Harbour’s odours, a testament to the city’s love for eating the creatures that we scoop out of the ocean.
In fact, we eat a whopping 71.2 kilos of seafood every year, about 4.1 times more seafood than the rest of the world on average.
At the rate the world currently eats seafood, some scientists think that stocks of all species currently consumed will collapse by 2050, leaving us with an ocean devoid of food we want to eat.
Yikes!
But fret not! It doesn’t mean you have to give up sushi or Chinese steamed fish (though you should probably stop eating Bluefin tuna, which is endangered, BTW).
The World Wildlife Fund is celebrating Sustainable Seafood Week, and they’re encouraging people to select seafood that is harvested in a way that doesn’t harm the planet, and that ensures that the species will be around (to be eaten or otherwise) for generations to come.
Here’s a list of participating restaurants that are featuring ocean-friendly menus, and you can also join their OpenSnap competition.
From now until July 5, take a photo of your sustainable seafood (because #CameraEatsFirst), tag it #wwfhk and #ssw2015, and upload it to OpenSnap (available on Android and iOS), OpenRice’s food-oriented answer to Instagram.
Prizes include a free dinner buffet for two at the Convention Centre’s Congress Plus and a HKD1,000 coupon for JW Marriott’s Man Ho Chinese Restaurant, so get snapper-snapping! More info here.
Photo: McPig via Flickr
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