Sustainable Seafood Week Forum for 2016


In a bid to help save overfished Philippines seas, Manila’s top hotels and restaurant came together with environmental groups and fisheries NGO’s to declare their support for the promotion of sustainable seafood. The groups fully recognize that the marine environment has long been plagued by problems, including over fishing due to decades of unsustainable fishing practices.

Environmental groups and civil society organizations lauded the historical decisions of these major hotels and restaurants for taking the lead, and being part of the global effort to protect our oceans, one menu at a time

seafood seafood 4 seafood 3 Raising consumer awareness and moving the country’s seafood industry towards greater sustainability are urgently required to help reverse fisheries decline

The group is organizing a Sustainable Seafood Week in February 2016 envisioned to establish an open and dynamic platform for interested stakeholders to discuss the status, challenges and awareness for more sustainable seafood in the Philippines, focusing on local solutions for change and reform in the fisheries and aquaculture sector

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