Blue Ocean Institute launches fishphone.org 
Quick reference to smart seafood choices by phone
Categories: News, Environment [home]Author: Eric Cheng ( echeng )
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My friends frequently call me up to ask me whether a particular fish species is ok to eat. If I’m near my computer, I usually go to Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch site to look up the fish in question, but I’m often caught away from a computer.
Luckily, the Blue Ocean Institute has launched fishphone.org, a web site formatted for web-enabled mobile phones and PDAs. All you have to do before you order fish at a restaurant is hit the website on your mobile phone and choose a fish species in the drop-down menu. If you don’t have a web-enabled phone, you can SMS 30644 with the text, “FISH fishtype”. The SMS database isn’t as complete as is the website, but it’s a start.
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Comment(s):Nice service…
In Hong Kong, the local WWF chapter makes available a local seafood guide to bring awareness of which species to avoid and which are safe/ sustainable…
http://www.wwf.org.hk/images/conservation/seafood/HK-card-fold.pdf
However, I think they need to put more emphasis on avoiding shark’s fin soup on that card…
Posted by pakman on 11/09 at 04:39 AM
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