Local fish and no plastic and waste at the table: the sustainable dinner is served

An appeal from the Marine Protected Areas of Punta Campanella, Regno di Nettuno, and Slow Food Campania. "By choosing the right products, you can respect taste, tradition, and also the sea and the environment. And no dates on your plate." Anchovies, horse mackerel, mackerel, garfish, dolphinfish, and other local fish and shellfish. The right ingredients for preparing a delicious New Year's Eve dinner, respecting tradition, the environment, and the sea. This is the appeal launched by the Marine Protected Area of ​​Punta Campanella and Slow Food Campania on the eve of New Year's Eve. With local, abundant products, you can prepare traditional seafood appetizers, first courses, and second courses. Along with lentils and loose vegetables, without packaging and disposable plastic cutlery, you can celebrate while also respecting the environment.

“We buy poor, surplus and local fish. It is tasty and good for the biodiversity of our sea and for small-scale artisanal fishing,” says Antonino Miccio, director of the Punta Campanella MPAs in the Sorrento peninsula and the Regno di Nettuno in Ischia and Procida.
The President of the Punta Campanella Park, Michele Giustiniani, and the President of Slow Food Campania, Alberto Capasso, join the appeal, adding: "33,1% of the species in the Mediterranean are fished beyond their sustainable biological limit. And it is estimated that in 2050 there will be more plastic waste than fish in the oceans, by weight". An emergency to be fought also and above all at the table. Sea dates are also absolutely prohibited. "For a dish with dates, a square meter of seabed is destroyed - underlines Raffaele Di Palma, communications manager Amp Punta Campanella - In these days we invite everyone to report fishmongers and restaurants that sell or serve dates, contacting the Port Authority which is doing a great job to eradicate this criminal organization that is destroying our coasts".
“Among the fish to avoid are also salmon, red tuna, whitebait, corvina, magnosa, pangasius, cod, brown grouper - observes Carmela Guidone, head of the Punta Campanella Environmental Education Center - Fish also has its own seasonality and choosing seasonal fish means eating local and not frozen fish”.
Finally, be careful not to waste. "Avoid producing large quantities of food - the advice is true that these holidays are times to eat a lot, but the most important thing should be the conviviality between friends and relatives, not so much the quantity". In short, the advice is this: "Try not to overdo it and reduce waste"