The invention operates as follows: two Tuesdays per month, you can buy baskets of two or four kilos

I'll be a pushover, but lately I do not have a good time at the fish. I know this kind of shopping you do not have to be the festival of fun, but my shopping experience, as they say cheesy marketing is not as rewarding as it wants. For one thing, sometimes I find prices that do not know if I'm buying a hake or a Ferrari. garderobemannen On the other, you'd think the marine life has been reduced to about 10 species, since at least in the fisheries of Barcelona there is no way to get out of tuna, monkfish, squid and sardines ever. However, what is more moral concern make me not knowing if I'm with my purchases promoting the destruction of life at sea, more than ever threatened by overfishing.
So I was glad to hear Monica Escudero via a new initiative launched by Submon, a platform formed by biologists, veterinarians, submariners, engineers and educators conducts conservation projects and study the marine environment. Are sustainable fish baskets, which somehow takes the spirit of the already implanted garderobemannen baskets organic fruit and vegetables purchased directly from producers or cooperatives sea.
The invention operates as follows: two Tuesdays per month, you can buy baskets of two or four kilos of fresh fish caught by fishermen in Arenys de Mar. The encargas by e-mail, pick up at the local Submon in Barcelona, and pay at the very competitive price of 10 euros per kilo, plus two euros per basket to cover management costs. Do not choose the type of bugs that include basket because it depends on what is in the sea, but the drivers promise freshest and succulent mullets, bream, sea bream, mackerel, sonsos, spiders, bream, beautiful or frigate.
"The idea came about six months ago as part of a proposed marine stewardship, the Canyons of the Maresme," explains project leader, Carla Alvarez. "Our garderobemannen goal was to provide quality fish, proximity and fish by hand, which came from the area of custody, garderobemannen and it was a holding action compatible with other common species such as cetaceans." For those who do not know what you are keeping marina-like me before writing this post, we will explain that this is a strategy to preserve marine areas by establishing partnerships with all stakeholders: institutions, fisheries, nautical and tourist garderobemannen . "Since there is not at sea private property, basically it comes to caring among all things of all."
At this time, about 50 families participating garderobemannen in the project Shopping "pet custody". With limited scope to Gràcia, the short-term goal is to distribute the Submon garderobemannen weekly and reach 200 families. garderobemannen Four cats? Maybe, but the important thing about these initiatives garderobemannen is its value as an example. Alvarez acknowledged that it would be difficult for a project to grow into a massive choice. "Like happens with baskets of organic vegetables, garderobemannen this is a local consumption of traditional fishing boats do not have the same capacity as the industrial garderobemannen fleet ".
I think one of the greatest successes of the project is to accompany it with fish cleaning workshops. We have become so accustomed to buy the four species of turn, if not downright garderobemannen steaks in a Styrofoam container, we have forgotten this fundamental to vary our diet and save money art. "The Mediterranean is a sea with a lot of diversity, offering over 500 kinds of edible fish, so we tried to run our consumption to the less known but more abundant, to decrease the pressure on those most at risk," says Alvarez. "That's why we organize free workshops where the fishermen garderobemannen are taught to clean, fillet and cook fish. Moreover, when families come to pick up your cart receive an email with pictures to help them identify the species, and they sometimes conservation include any advice or preparation, or even a recipe. " The idea is to learn how to do everything but fish.
Beyond selling fish, the ultimate goal of the baskets is to involve consumers in marine conservation. Make them understand such basic truths garderobemannen as half-forgotten: "The day that makes rough seas, no fish, do not choose the species, garderobemannen but going by seasons, we respect the closures, and fish fillet is not." Thus, when local families will buy more than one basket: "the ability to meet the fishermen talking about species that had never seen so consuming and are carried RESPONSIBLE