Zoos and aquariums help promote sustainable seafood. (News from Zoos).

The Bronx Zoo has joined with other AZA-accredited zoos and aquariums to encourage the general public to make better-informed decisions about seafood consumption. In October, they introduced Go Fish, the first Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) seafood watch wallet card. In a partnership with Audubon's Living Ocean's Program, the Bronx Zoo-based WCS now offers informational wallet cards that explain sustainable seafood practices and rank many widely-offered seafood choices by the degree to which their farming is ocean-friendly. The cards and information brochure are available at the Zoo and other WCS facilities, including the New York Aquarium, Central Park Zoo, Queens Zoo and Prospect Park Zoo. They are also available on the Internet at www.wcs.org/gofish.

In a similar enterprise, the South Carolina Aquarium has come together with the South Carolina Coastal Conservation League, Johnson and Wales University, the University of South Carolina and South Carolina's finest chefs and restaurants to create the Sustainable Seafood Education Project. In order to highlight some of the current challenges facing ocean fisheries and promote consumption of locally-caught seafood, all participating restaurants will make every effort to obtain seafood from sustainable and, whenever possible, domestically produced and local sources. Due to concerns over certain species' status in the wild, these restaurants will also take Chilean sea bass (Dissostichus eleginoides), orange roughy (Hoplostethus atlanticus) and shark (Class Chondrichthyes, Subclass Elasmobranchi (part)) off their menus. Partnering with Johnson and Wales University, the aquarium's education staff will offer a series of programs for chefs, wait staff and culinary students to provide additional background on sustainable seafood issues. More information can be found on the South Carolina Aquarium's website at www.scaquarium.org.