Update on SASSI Suppliers
15 Dec 2009 Update on SASSI suppliers - Good news for restaurants and other seafood traders out there looking for sustainable seafood suppliers, SASSI is now working with a number of suppliers through a our SASSI retailer/supplier participation scheme. The core of this work focuses around a series of sustainability assessments with the SASSI participant supplier, helping them to identify risks in...read more
MSC Sustainable Seafood Lunch
15 Dec 2009 Ocean Basket joins SASSI Partnership by hosting global Sustainable Seafood Lunch - The Ocean Basket restaurant chain recently became a partner of WWF’s Southern African Sustainable Seafood Initiative’s (SASSI) Participation scheme, which aims to limit the impact of the seafood industry on marine resources. The partnership was announced at the South African leg of the global Sustainable Seafood Lunch,...read more
Smart Gear Top Prize snagged by Seabird Saving Invention
10 Dec 2009 Smart Gear Top Prize snagged by Seabird Saving Invention - More than 300 000 seabirds are killed by longline fishing operations every year. But, thanks to the creative minds of the Australian team who were awarded the top prize in this years’ WWF Smart Gear Competition, thousands of seabirds could be saved from dying accidentally on longlines. The...read more
Farming South Africa´s seas responsibly
10 Dec 2009 Farming South Africa´s seas responsibly - In a world where 80 percent of the World’s fish stocks are either maximally or over-exploited, fish farming (or aquaculture) is a shining beacon of hope. The aquaculture industry has been growing steadily over the last 30 years, and is now the fastest growing food production sector in the world. The...read more
The Responsible Fisheries Alliance
10 Dec 2009 THE RESPONSIBLE FISHERIES ALLIANCE: Securing the Future of South Africa’s Marine Resources - This year has been a remarkable one in the history of the South African fishing industry, notably because of the launch of the Responsible Fisheries Alliance (RFA) in September. This pioneering initiative sees WWF and major fishing industry players (I&J, Oceana, Sea Harvest and...read more
Sokomoro, a shark by any other name...
5 Nov 2009 Recently a new name has begun appearing on the South African seafood scene and a number of concerned consumers have been writing in to SASSI to find our exactly what "Sokomoro" is. The sad truth is that this is just another case of mislabelling as Sokomoro is in fact a Japanese word for shortfin mako shark, a pelagic shark species...read more
State of the Environment competition
15 Sep 2009 State of the Environment Competition - The African Carbon Trust (ACT) and the Two Oceans Aquarium announced in Cape Town today the launch of the ‘State of Our Environment Competition’ in which members of the public are invited to submit photographs, videos, art or any other medium to highlight their personal experiences of environmental degradation and loss. ACT Managing...read more
SASSI on Carte Blanche
28 Apr 2009 Misnaming scandal rocks SA seafood industry - Misnaming of seafood has been hitting international headlines increasingly over the past year. Also known as “market substitution”, misnaming occurs when one seafood species is marketed and sold as another, often unrelated species. Although this may sometimes happen accidentally, for example when a species is misidentified, it is normally...read more
Upcoming SASSI courses
24 Apr 2009 SASSI courses in Cape Town, PE and Knysna - Over the next month, we are running Sustainable Seafood training courses in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Knysna for restaurant members of our participation scheme. The course is a 3 and a half hour interactive training course specifically aimed at restaurants involved in the seafood industry. It is...read more
SASSI partners with Dining-Out
30 Mar 2009 SASSI has recently partnered with Dining-Out,South Africa’s premier on-line restaurant guide, to provide consumers with a simple and easy-to-use way of finding restaurants who have committed to SASSI’s restaurant participation scheme. Concerned consumers can now search for SASSI restaurants through SASSI’s own Dining-Out page or you can go to www.dining-out.co.za and use the “sustainable seafood” search function...read more
Award-winning Vineyard Hotel & Spa conference centre joins SASSI
1 Nov 2008 Award-winning Vineyard Hotel & Spa conference centre joins SASSI - SASSI is proud to welcome the prestigious award-winning Vineyard Hotel & Spa conference centre as its first hotel participant to sign up to the SASSI Restaurant Participation Scheme. This is just one of a host of new eco-initiatives implemented within the hotel, which serve’s to fulfill its broader...read more
SASSI Retailer Partners attend eco-labelling event
28 Oct 2008 Cape Town. SASSI Retail Partners attend eco-labelling workshop. Last week, the spotlight fell on eco-labelling when a workshop was held by the ISS (Institute for Security Studies) titled “The challenges and opportunities for marine certification in Southern and Eastern Africa”. The meeting coincided with the official launch of the South African office of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC).The...read more
Rhodes University gets SASSI at end of year Dinner
1 Oct 2008 Rhodes University gets SASSI at end of year celebration - Date: October 2008 Rhodes University Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science hosted their annual celebration dinner with a decisively SASSI theme this year. Held on the 10th of October, the festivities represented the culmination of a three-day seminar where students presented their research and latest findings. As...read more
SASSI nets major greening award
24 Jul 2008 SASSI nets major greening award - WWF´s Southern African Sustainable Seafood Initiative (SASSI) has scooped a Mail & Guardian Greening the Future award in the hotly contested category "Environmental best practice in not-for-profit organisations." SASSI aims to alert consumers, restauranteurs, wholesalers and fishers about the threats to marine resources. The award´s citation reads: "The Greening...read more