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This website was developed as part of an Honors Capstone Project for American University (Spring 2010). It was intended to provide curious individuals with a clear and comprehensive understanding of the underlying factors that make fisheries and aquaculture sustainable.

In the US, the creation of the Seafood Watch program at the Monterey Bay Aquarium has done a great deal to educate consumers on sustainable seafood. In France, however, while a similar campaign was launched by Greenpeace and the WWF, it has not yet reached the level of sophistication of the U.S. Seafood Watch program. It is still, today, very difficult to obtain information concerning the sustainability of French fisheries and aquaculture industries.

I therefore decided to take on the task of developing a web-based guide to the local and sustainable seafood of France that provided individuals with the tools needed to spur change in the seafood industry. It is of uttermost importance than we bring to an end the unsustainable practices that have lead to the disappearance of 90% of the large predatory fish from our world's oceans, and replace them by sustainable practices that will ensure the sustained productivity of our waters for future generations to come.

 

Questions? Suggestions? contact me:

Lisa Ailloud
la8095a@student.american.edu

 

N.B. the translation of this website into French is a work in progress

 

 

 

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