🐟 Fishing series: A few climate conscious guidelines to buying fish

It may not appear as such but fish and seafood actually represents half of human meat consumption. It is estimated that, on a yearly basis, humans eat about 41kg of land animal meat per person as well as, surprisingly enough, 20kg of fish. These figures imply that our consumption of fish has be taken seriously and regarded in its entirety. Indeed, our food habits are directly linked to an industry which does impact the environment and therefore the climate. To acknowledge that the species of the fish, its origin and the fishing method employed in its production can have a “good” to a “very bad” effect on our planet’s ecosystem is capital and must drive our consumption. This article entends to list a few guidelines to follow when buying fish with an environmentally-conscious mind.