Last week Cape Town’s Two Oceans Aquarium hosted a special celebration, with some delicious snacks, as its Shoreline Café, destination for thousands of hungry visitors each year, became the first restaurant in Africa to be certified to the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Chain of Custody standard for seafood traceability.
Shoreline Café has a longstanding commitment to sourcing sustainable seafood. With MSC certification, it joins the ranks of world-renowned restaurants such as Raymond Blanc’s Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, entitled to use the MSC ecolabel on menus and packaging to demonstrate that the products served are fully traceable to MSC certified fisheries.
Juan de Allende, Shoreline Cafe’s Executive Chef said, “The auditors looked at the traceability of our ordering system, checking invoices to ensure that they could trace the seafood right back to the fishery. This gives our customers the assurance that the seafood we serve is indeed from an MSC-certified fishery.”
Dr Patrick Garratt, Managing Director of the Two Oceans Aquarium, added: “As an aquarium we have a special responsibility to help raise awareness of the state of the world’s fish stocks, and what choices people can make to help ensure the health of the world’s oceans. Our own credibility depends, as well, upon the sustainability of our sourcing policies and the MSC ecolabel helps make our commitment visible to our visitors”.
“Next year, we will be hosting the eighth International Aquarium Congress, and we’re looking forward to using this and other opportunities to increase public awareness of the MSC ecolabel and how individuals can, by choosing sustainable seafood, make their own contribution to the future of the marine world.”
The liveeco team
