Sarah Wilson http://www.sarahwilson.com.au
wrote
in her blog today about the best tuna to buy ... which are most sustainable and
which are lower in mercury.
She is also encouraging people to buy these products so that they stay on
the supermarket shelves. A summary of her post is below.
P.S. I usually get the Safcol brand in olive oil. Would you believe that many other brands in ‘olive
oil’ actually also have canola or other oil too. Safcol is 100% olive oil and brine. Yummy tuna too.
The ‘Portview’ brand is an Aldi brand but only comes in the smaller
cans.
Reasons for
buying pole and line caught:
- fewer sharks, turtles,
whales and dolphins will be killed.
- the rate of fishing is more
sustainable.
- tuna species that are under
pressure will be given a break.
- more local fisherman can be
employed.
- developing coastal nations
will feel the benefit.
- it won’t hurt your hip pocket.
Interesting to know: all the pole
and line products (except Woolworths’) are skipjack tuna, which is
significantly lower in mercury than yellowfin (which Sirena is full of).
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