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

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It may not appear as such but fish and seafood actually represents half of human meat consumption. It is estimated<ref>Fish: Numbers given by the FAO in its 2018 report on fishery (click here for report)/Meat: Numbers correspond to the FAO’s 2019 “Meat market review”<br>

<u>Fish:</u> 20.2 kg/pp<br>

“Artisanal fishing”, also know as “small-scale fishing“ is far from being an <i>underground model</i>. Indeed, this fishery employs 12 million people across the planet, as opposed to industrial fishing, employing a little over 500 thousand workers but receiving almost 80% of public subsidies. Artisanal fishing is said<ref>Jacquet and Pauly (2008) <i>Funding priorities: big barriers to small-scale fisheries.</i> Conservation Biology 22(4): 832-835.</ref> to use, for the same volume of production as industrial fishing, only 1/8 of the fuel. Being small-scale, this model insures the preservation of marine ecosystems, the respect of fishing quotas and, in a majority of cases, fair wages and amount of working hours for fishermen/women.

== How to garantee that your fish originates from artisanal fisheries? ==

Ask your fishmonger, your local fisherman, suscribe to a “local distribution network”<ref>When in France: [https://poiscaille.fr/ Poiscaille]</ref> or read the label. Resellers have the legal obligation to communicate the type of fishery your fish is caught from. Do not trust “sustainable labels” but rather read and spot the type of fishing technic used in the production of your fish. You can then compare it to our list of “soft fishing technics” below.

If the boat is smaller than 12 meters, you are garanteed that it does not engage in destructive forms of fishing. Indeed, 12 meters implies that the boat will not be able to go on more than 1 day trips, which rules out the possiblity to fish with a trawl in deep sea, or to fish with drift nets: it simply garantees the use of “soft fishing” methods.

[[File:Handslamonfishing.jpg|thumb|Thumbnailed image]|<u>Walk fishing:</u> fishing with a landing net, fish by fish. Here opposite, salmon fishing in river.]]

[[File:Purse.png|thumb|Thumbnailed image]|<u>Purse Seine</u>]]

[[File:Bardeligne.jpg|thumb|Thumbnailed image]|<u>Line fishing:</u> fishing with a fishing rod and line. Here opposite, Sea Bass fishing in Bretagne, France.]]

[[File:Fish trap.jpg|thumb|Thumbnailed image]|<u>Fish traps</u>]]

Soft fishing or “sleeping art” concerns fishing devices which are put to rest in the water (for a few minutes or hours) and then dragged out. All of these technics are considered less impactful for the environment as they produce very little waste due to the fact that they offer the possibility to throw under-grown fish back into the water.