Fish At Gore Reception Turns Out To Be MSC-Certified - Telegraph

[hatrack]

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The night before the wedding, People magazine reported, the Gores were at a dinner for 75 at the nearby Crustacean restaurant where a six-course tasting menu included Chilean sea bass - also known as Patagonian toothfish.

The reaction was swift: writing in in the Australian Daily Telegraph, Rebecca Keeble of Humane Society International, a conservation pressure group, complained of the danger to the species from "from illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing activities".

She noted that "more than 50 per cent of toothfish traded is illegally caught, and includes juveniles vital to the ongoing toothfish population". She called on the US government to help crack down on illegal fishing by sanctioning Spain for allowing its nationals to fish illegally for the species in conservation areas.

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But the fish enjoyed by the Gores were not endangered or illegally caught. Rather, the restaurant later confirmed, they had come from one of the world's few well-managed, sustainable populations of toothfish, and caught and documented in compliance with Marine Stewardship Council regulations. The Gores' spokesman, Kalee Kreider, admitted that the fish has been on the menu, but said: "The Gores absolutely agree with this humane society and the rest of the environmental community about illegally caught Chilean sea bass.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml;jsessionid=0QTNCJRFWEH2TQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=/earth/2007/07/19/eagore119.xml

[northzax]

1. msc certification for Toothfish is a joke

really. just a figleaf as the species vanished.

[mzmolly]

2. Just as I suspected.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=294981&mesg_id=294994

;)

[glowing]

3. Ewe... what's worse... eat farmed crap, or eat endangered species?

tough break.

[razzleberry]

4. how was the fish transported from Chile?

air freight
truck
ship, powered/sail
horse?