Lifestyle | 02 Sep 2015 | By Sun International
Table Bay Supports National Marine Week with ‘SASSI’ New Menu
Want to know how to save marine life? Make green seafood choices from the SASSI list.
During the month of October, The Table Bay hotel in Cape Town will be celebrating National Marine Week and doing their part towards preserving marine life by introducing a new SASSI menu at Camissa Brassiere.
National Marine Week, which runs from 12 to 18 October, highlights increasingly severe marine conservation issues, including the threat to South Africa’s oceans from overfishing and pollution.
Why it’s important to get involved in saving marine life
- The world’s fish stocks could be depleted by 2048, meaning that we stand to lose an important food resource in less than four decades.
- Even though the ocean may seem bottomless right now, with over 158 million tons of fish being harvested every year, the entire collapse of the ocean’s ecosystem is looming large.
- Alongside the loss of this food source, all those whose livelihoods depend on marine life (whether catching, cleaning or selling it) will no longer have employment.
By highlighting the role the ocean plays in our lives, National Marine Week hopes to raise awareness around how to save marine life. A great deal of this awareness is driven by the Southern African Sustainable Seafood Initiative (SASSI) by educating consumers and traders on preserving marine life through making sustainable choices. By using colour coding, SASSI has made it easy to purchase sustainable seafood and to avoid contributing to the decline of our oceans. Through their SMS line and mobile app, the SASSI traffic light code makes it super easy for consumers to check whether the seafood they’re about to buy is sustainable (coded green), at risk (orange) or endangered (red). SASSI believes that consumers have the greatest power to change how our oceans are treated, and can drive this change by supporting responsible sellers who source their fish from well-managed and sustainable fisheries.
Write this down: To check if the fish you’re about to buy is safe, simply send a text with the name of the fish to the FishMS service at 0794998795 and it’ll ping back with the status of that fish.
The Table Bay hotel’s Camissa Brassiere is proud to be a responsible restaurant that actively supports preserving marine life. Their new SASSI menu features yellowtail, which comes from incredibly resilient stocks and, because it is caught by line fishing, there is very little bycatch of other fish and marine life. Simila rly, house-smoked snoek, which also features on the new SASSI menu, is line-fished. The menu’s starter of jigged squid is caught by using a highly selective method of fishing involving plastic containers and baited hooks that has a minimal impact on the marine environment. While Camissa’s menus are always designed to be sustainable, this is a wonderful new SASSI menu that promises to be as delicious as it is ocean-friendly.
Sun International is committed to preserving marine life, and by 2017, all Sun International restaurants will only sell green-listed seafood.
We hope to see you at Camissa soon to try out our fantastic SASSI menu, and to mark the importance of National Marine Week with us. Remember that as a consumer, you have a great deal of power to influence how fish are caught. Vote with your wallet for sustainable fishing, and make a change. It’s as simple as that.
Table Bay Supports National Marine Week with ‘SASSI’ New Menu
The new SASSI menu at The Table Bay includes delicious line fish with roasted corn and fennel succotash.
Table Bay Supports National Marine Week with ‘SASSI’ New Menu
Enjoy Chef Jocelyn’s pan-fried yellowtail during National Marine Week.