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Q Should we stop eating coral fish?

We should definitely stop eating coral fish and any fish or seafood product, including shark's fin, if it is not harvested in a sustainable or ethical manner.

The London-based Marine Stewardship Council has a recognised process for certifying fisheries, and this approach must become common practice and demanded by consumers.

Coral reefs are the lungs of the ocean and they are critically endangered throughout the world by overfishing, often using dynamite or cyanide, reclamation, habitat destruction, pollution, etc. Human activities are irrevocably destroying our life-support system. Unsustainable consumption must stop - if it takes ciguatera poisoning from coral reef fish to help raise awareness, then so be it. Hong Kong is the 10th largest consumer of fish and seafood per capita - we must change our ways and be more responsible to the environment, for our sake and for future generations.

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I think the question should be expanded to ask: 'Should we be eating so much seafood?'

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