{"id":1103670,"date":"2020-03-20T17:06:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T16:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/?post_type=news&p=103670&source_id=103670&target_id=1103670"},"modified":"2024-10-16T10:18:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T08:18:58","slug":"recipes-quizzes-and-songs-to-celebrate-australian-sustainable-seafood-week","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/news\/recipes-quizzes-and-songs-to-celebrate-australian-sustainable-seafood-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Recipes Quizzes and Songs to Celebrate Australian Sustainable Seafood Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Australians enjoyed another successful celebration of responsible seafood with the 12th annual Sustainable Seafood Week last week, which even had its own specially composed anthem sung by a choir.<\/p>\n

The week was organised by ASC and the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) with help from seafood producers, retailers, food service companies and influencers.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The week kicked off with a lunch for the people and organisations involved in the week, who were treated to a performance by the fifth grade choir from the Our lady of Fatimah Catholic Primary School in southern Sydney, who sang the Fish Forever Song \u2013 composed by Jacco Steendam especially for this year\u2019s campaign (check out the lyrics below). The lunch also involved an art exhibition featuring beautiful images from some of Australia\u2019s picturesque ASC certified farms. Naturally the food served included delicious and responsibly sourced ASC and MSC certified seafood.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeafood is hugely important to us here in Australia, and this week is about celebrating our love of seafood while also remembering that we need to protect our oceans, rivers and lakes if we want to continue enjoying seafood,\u201d said Duncan Leadbitter, ASC Commercial Manager for Australia and New Zealand. \u201cEvery year Sustainable Seafood Week seems to grow, with more and more people appreciating the importance of responsibly producing seafood. The real impact comes from consumers though, and not just for one week but all year around, by looking for the ASC or MSC logo when you\u2019re buying your seafood.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As well as having its own theme song, this year\u2019s celebrations also launched an ASC newspaper, the Seafood Standard<\/i>, written and published by ASC featuring recipes, facts, quizzes and stories about certified farms. Other stories featured in The Guardian<\/i><\/a> as well as on radio interviews with the ABC, the national broadcaster, a TV item in Tasmania and social media channels. Food bloggers and influencers played their part by creating recipes for locally produced certified salmon and kingfish.<\/p>\n

Certified producers were also front and centre of the week. Mures Tasmania, a seafood business that is Chain of Custody certified, meaning it can process and sell ASC and MSC certified products, hosted a press lunch attended by Australia\u2019s Assistant Minister for Fisheries, Jonathon Duniam. The launch featured Tassal salmon and yellowtail kingfish (a species of Seriola) farmed by Port Lincoln company, Clean Seas.<\/p>\n

ASC also launched new social media channels specifically for Australia and New Zealand, and you can catch up with photos and updates from Sustainable Seafood Week, as well as future events, by following ASC Australia and New Zealand on Facebook<\/a> and @ascaqua.au.nz on Twitter and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Responsible choices at Mures Tasmania<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fish forever <\/i>by Jacco Steendam<\/em><\/p>\n

We want fish forever, forever we want fish
\nIn rivers lakes and oceans, creatures we can\u2019t miss<\/i><\/p>\n

This wide brown land
\n<\/i>Surrounded by blue
\n<\/i>Three oceans to love
\n<\/i>Still plenty of fish, for me and you
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Surfing with the dolphins
\n<\/i>Turtles passing by
\n<\/i>Snorkelling the reef
\n<\/i>Colours hit the eye<\/i><\/p>\n

Without ongoing care
\n<\/i>Will they still be there?
\n<\/i>Will they still be there
\n<\/i>Year after year
\n<\/i>They should not disappear<\/i><\/p>\n

The job of protection is for all to take action
\n<\/i>From the water to the dish
\n<\/i>We need to help our fish
\n<\/i>Help our fish<\/i><\/p>\n

We need fish forever, we need fish forever
\nIn rivers, lakes and oceans, <\/i>creatures we can\u2019t absolutely, without question, never ever miss!<\/i><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1103674,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103670","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1103670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1103674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}