
26.03.2012 / Green Life
Sustainable sushi
If turning a restaurant into a sustainable activity can be a hard job, running a sustainable sushi restarant is even tougher.
Behind Japan’s most famous and loved national dish, in fact, often hide unorthodox fishing methods that can badly hurt the environment as well as prove potentially dangerous for consumers.
The risks of overfishing and the state of the world’s sushi are thoroughly explained in a clip that’s gone viral during the last weeks, which was significantly shot by a sushi restaurant – Bamboo Sushi (Portland, Oregon), the firts certified sustainable sushi restaurant.
The Story of Sushi is an eye-opening 4-minute movie following sushi fish through its journey from the sea to the table. Made with incredible hand-crafted miniatures, the video focuses on mass fishing and bycatch, which are sadly a growing menace to dying breeds and the ecosystem. Not to mention the huge waste caused by transport and bad conservation.
Through this clip and several partnerships with some of the largest organizations in marine stewardship and oceanic sustainability in the United States, Bamboo Sushi aims at raising awareness on the need of finding a better ending to this story.
From a practical point of view, the restaurant only employs fish coming from healthy, ethically fished populations and zero-mile ingredients.
Everything is accurately monitored and checked, ensuring that the operations have a light footprint as well – an eco-friendly attitude which includes power efficiency, water sparing, 100% biodegradable to-go containers and a compost program.
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