BELA-Olhão Sardines

Sardines Are The New Salmon

A very interesting, and somewhat disturbing, article came out yesterday in the NY Times where renowned author of “Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood” Taras Grescoe shares his take on why salmon is just not sustainable or as healthy today as it was in the past.

Because of numerous man-made issues, salmon are less abundant, less nutritious and suffering from epidemic-like outbreaks, and salmon such as the Broughton’s pink salmon caught off the coast of British Columbia are in jeopardy of becoming extinct by the year 2011.

Sardines do offer up a great alternative, which are really high in omega-3, 6 and 9, and also offer up high dosages of calcium. Not only are they nutritious, but they are more available and offer just as many avenues for cooking to satisfy any taste bud.

And, BELA-Olhao‘s sardines are sustainably caught, so they support the sustainable fishing, the local economy of Portugal and have low, if not indistinguishable, levels of mercury.

As we seek alternatives to completely depleting the already suffering population of salmon, sardines are finally earning their time in the spotlight.

Treehugger also noted this trend.