Don't Eat Babies

While buying my supply of sea fish over the weekend, I noticed the prevalence of babies on the shelves: baby squid, baby lobster, baby Malindi Sole. Catching baby fish is an indicator of the poor health of our fish stocks - depleting without proper replenishment. When eating babies, they don't get a chance to grow into adults or spawn new babies. In addition, future fishing livelihoods are at stake - whether the artisanal fisherman or the fishing industry as a whole: in Canada, as many as 30,000 jobs were lost when the once plentiful supplies of cod collapsed in 1992. As consumers - whether as families, restaurants or hotels - we are a major part of the problem and we have the power and choice to be the solution too. Don't eat babies.

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