App Shopper: Sustainable Seafood Guide (Lifestyle)

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Mar 27 '12	Version 1.1
Sep 18 '11	New App: Free, v1.0

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Sustainable Seafood Guide

iOS iPhone

Australia’s Sustainable Seafood Guide provides you with the information necessary to make an informed and ocean-friendly choice about the seafood you put in your shopping basket or on your plate. This app gives you access at your fingertips to recommendations about the sustainability of the seafood found in supermarkets, restaurants and fish and chip shops.

The oceans are our planet’s lifeblood, but overfishing and unsustainable fishing is putting them at risk and undermining the health of fish stocks. If you eat seafood and love the oceans you can make a difference and help protect the seas around us by choosing seafood that is harvested sustainably.

This app is the only one of its kind specific to Australian seafood, and features information on over 100 different types of seafood, including those from wild-caught fisheries, fish farms and imported species.

The app also features extensive information on the sustainability of canned tuna, with a whole section of Greenpeace’s ‘Canned Tuna Guide’. This section gives detailed coverage of what ocean issues are associated with individual brands.

Produced by the Australian Marine Conservation Society (www.marineconservation.org.au), this app provides independent advice on better seafood choices and seafood to avoid, because the fish we choose today affects the health of our oceans tomorrow.

Features:
- Easy to use traffic light sustainability ranking system, with seafood as “Better Choice”, “Think Twice” and “Say No”
- Free, up to date seafood assessments
- Enables you to search for seafood marketed under different names
- Gives a range of information on ocean issues

What's new

Canned tuna is typically bought by brand, so to arm consumers when faced with a whole host of choices in the supermarket, the Sustainable Seafood Guide now features a whole section devoted to the sustainability of canned tuna brands. Greenpeace’s ‘Canned Tuna Guide’ is now a dedicated section of the Sustainable Seafood App, with information on which brands source their tuna responsibly and which brands have some work to do.