As wild fish stocks wane and over-fishing becomes a real concern it seems ridiculous to be trying to increase the amount of fish in our diet, but that is what I’m trying to do. Call it instinct, call it desperation, call it anything you like really. The fact is that I "feel" that we don’t eat enough fish, and because we have cut meat out of our diet so much in the past few years, that we need an alternative, healthy source of protein in our diet. I’m also trying to shift the last few stubborn kilograms of baby-weight from my body now that my "baby" is well over two years old. Sigh!
I’ve been taking stock of the supermarket fish counters in our area over the past few weeks. I don’t even bother going into Morrisons anymore because they have no sustainably caught fish. Sainsbury’s offer some MSC certified Pacific caught cod and Alaskan wild salmon, as well as line-caught yellow-fin tuna, and it seems that Waitrose fish is all considered to come from well-managed waters or fish farms.
Hmmm! We could really do with a local fishmonger. I haven’t been able to find one in the two years that we’ve been here.There is an article in The Ecologist about traditional fishmongers that is worth a read, and now I must take my leave and scour the net for a fishmonger within a reasonable distance of our little green house. Toodle-loo!
