I feel terribly that I have neglected this blog for a month but for great reason!  I recently found out that I am pregnant!  The news has completely taken my attention away from the ocean as I started another blog to document my pregnancy journey called www.after-30.com .

Until last night…my husband and I met up with some friends for dinner at the Keg here in Whistler.  They had arrived early and had already ordered appetizers, escargot and cheese bread.  As we declined the offer of escargot, our quest to not eat seafood came up again.  At first my friend was confused as to why we weren’t eating seafood and said “but you’re pregnant…fish is the best thing for you right now!”  I responded by saying that my choosing not to eat seafood is more about advocating sustainability and less about not eating all seafood.

I believe that my giving up seafood for a year is an example that it is possible to refrain from the foods you love for the sake of the health and wellbeing of that species.  At some point as a society we are going to have to make a choice, and my choice is to save our oceans so that the generations below us can enjoy the same pleasures we have today.

However for that to happen, drastic changes MUST occur NOW!  Without change soon, we are destined to destroy this fragile ecosystem within a short few decades.  The only way we can successfully save our oceans is to eat sustainably.  There is no way we can convince the world to stop eating seafood…people will never understand and choose to look the other way as they do when they only hear what they want to hear.

What we can do is promote sustainable fisheries.  Choose your seafood product wisely and stop eating endangered species.  For more information on sustainable fish, please see my article on the Greenpeace Redlist under the sustainable seafood archive.