Consumers are looking for low-cost protein that offers good nutrition and taste. 

Parents are looking for healthy seafood to offer their children a healthy start in life in order to minimize disease in their adult life.

Adults are choosing seafood for its nutritional benefits for preventing heart disease.

Consumers want to know where their food is coming from and know that it is produced using healthy and sustainable processes. 

Consumers want to avoid farmed seafood that has been produced using antibiotics and toxic chemicals… preferring natural health management of the food source.

Food stores whose brand is natural and healthy foods are demanding that their suppliers use sustainable and healthy processes.

Consumers want to know that food producers use ethical work practices.

News on Trends:

Trends in Seafood Market (Slide Presentation), James L. Anderson, Department of Environment and Natural Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island, 2007
http://www.unuftp.is/lectures_guest/Future-2007.pdf

Major food retailers like Whole Foods Market are using their influence to demand seafood that is farmed using sustainable methods. http://www.thedailygreen.com/living-green/blogs/green-products-services/sustainable-seafood-55072803Farming Seafood Sustainably | By Ylan Q. Mui
Aquaculture is becoming the next big issue at the dinner table. Supermarkets are introducing new standards for the farmed fish and shrimp that make up roughly half of US…read more. Business | Journal Gazette – http://www.journalgazette.net/business
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Fish and Seafood Trends – Global Aquaculture Today 

In a world clamoring for solutions to the Food Crisis, it’s the poorest and the frail who are most at risk! In Africa, one of the oldest known foodstuffs is coming to the rescue. Daniel Jamu of WorldFish, says, “If you look at a country like Malawi, where the land holding sizes are small, FISH has additional benefits in that you don’t actually require much land to produce more income.”

Fish Farming Provides a Better Diet for the Poorest of the Poor -  World Food Crisis Solutions

Fish Ponds provided a better diet. They provide water and fertilizer for the crops and they provided security in times of drought. Across Malawi, this Blue Revolution is also providing answers to the victims of the HIV Pandemic by offering a readily available, high quality diet.

Esther Fikira, “As the wife of the Chief…I am also a Chief, so I must set an example to everyone in the Community. I was the first to adopt Orphans, and with the help of the Fish Ponds…everyone can follow my example.” A higher income allows Esther to adopt HIV Orphans in her Community, so that they, too, can become a part of Malawi’s future. 

VIDEO:
Fish farming Supports HIV-Affected Families in Africa – Providing Aquaculture Solutions

Malawi — The food crisis is adding to the misery of countries already crippled by other burdens like drought and HIV. Here people are turning to fish farming, not only for food and income but also as a way to cope with the challenges of HIV — in particular the orphans from AIDS. This video takes a look at WorldFish’s work to reduce poverty and hunger in Africa through fish farming.

  

An old Chinese Proverb wisely says, “Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he will eat for a lifetime”.

At Island Bounty S.A., we are partnering with the world to put that wisdom into practice!