White Fish Recipes

Portuguese Cod Fish Cakes

These white fish recipes will be popular with family meals and provide great nutritional value.

White fish does not have to be expensive.  There are plenty tasty fish on the market for half the price but with equal quality.
 
We, as the consumers, will stick to a trend and stay with a well known fish but it is worth exploring other possibilities.  Even doing so temporary, we are allowing fish stock levels to increase while we eat other types of fish. 


Your fish monger can recommend similar fish that is more sustainable and still affordable without compromising on quality or taste.

The main reason that Cod fish is an endangered species it is because of over fishing practices.  White fish recipes can include various types of fish.

Corporate greed to tap into a popular market has contributed to low fish stock, which large companies try to justify by blaming it on demand.

In reality it is because the processes used by these large companies are for profit reasons, without regard for the environment, fish sustainability or consumer welfare.

I am sure that is most people had a choice of buying sustainable fish, they would, a lot more work needs to be done to increase sustainable fish all over the world.

Paying slightly more for sustainable fish would be acceptable, no reason why all fish should have the same environmental standards.

People are faced with accepting high price increases on oil, petrol, wheat for example.  Why should it be any different for sustainable fish?

Large fishing vessels are destroying excessive groups of fish (or schools as they are called).  Tons of fish eggs/small fish is discarded each year which were caught by dragging their “iron nets” at sea.

Yes, this “unwanted” fish cannot be sold because of size regulations but by the time they are thrown back at sea, it is just to late.

Thrown fish cannot survive back in the sea and are then no more than just shark/whale food.

Another contributing factor is that the same type of fish is in demand. As a consumer, we share this responsibility. 
We could try not eat the same type of fish every week, by trying different types of fish.  If everyone did that, a new trend would build to set more variety available into the market.

Market demand is set according to individual choice and not by the companies.  We need to make sure that it does not go the other way around.