Restaurant hosts guests to get familiar with the WWF seafood guide. Photo: Magda Jentgena
Photo: Magda Jentgena
Contact: Magda Jentgena
As a part of the three-year project to promote sustainable fisheries, Pasaules Dabas Fonds has partnered with eight well-known restaurants in Latvia as well as with the chef’s association, Jauno pavāru kustība.
Through these partnerships, the restaurants will adjust their menus to offer only sustainably sourced fish and seafood products to their customers. With this transition, we hope to raise awareness and increase the public’s demand for sustainably sourced seafood. In addition, we hope that through the restaurant partnerships we will also be able to shine a light on local, less popular fish species, whose populations are not endangered.
Photo: Magda Jentgena
Kristaps Sīlis, the head chef of restaurant Dome zivju restorāns and the co-founder of Jauno pavāru kustība, is one of the newest partners to join the initiative. He said, “We care about our impact and what we serve to our guests. Being in this field, we cannot for a second think only about today; we have to plan two steps ahead. We are also responsible for our impact on the environment. As chefs we show our guests what products are available in different seasons. Because we have the role, in a way, of educators, we have to be the first to take part in this initiative”.
Restaurants joining the partnership:
This article is part of the WWF Baltic Newsletter – May 2020
