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Although the fish market is a bit flat this year, Veronica Papacosta – the president of Seafood Industry Australia – said there are signs that Christmas would be "lively".
"Everyone loves shrimp and oysters, those are by far the most popular during Christmas," he said.
Australians "are in celebration mode" and would also be looking for items of great value such as Tasmanian Rock lobster and Eastern Rock lobster, which were "a little bit more expensive because they c & # 39; it is a limited supply ".
"Wild shrimps are particularly popular: there are many North Queensland tiger prawns and Coffs Harbor prawns in New South Wales," Mrs. Papacosta said.
While the debate between the commercial fishing industry and supporters of sustainable fishing on the size of catches and how they are captured continues, on the whole "Australian fisheries are among the most managed in the world", the sustainable food leader in the world Wildlife Fund , Joshua Bishop, he said.
"But this level of management is not universal: about 70 percent of the seafood consumed in Australia is imported, so the decline in global fish stocks should be a concern for all of us."
Associate professor Quentin Hanich agreed that Australians who bought national fish products were in a better position than they would have opted for the international alternative.
"It is when seafood is imported into Australia that significant problems arise – where illegal catches are recycled into another capture," said Dr. Hanich, expert in international fisheries governance at the University of Wollongong.
"That's why managing the independent and certified supply chain, like a blockchain, would be good".
No guarantee
Pacifical tuna supplier, which distributes tuna from eight Pacific nations, and the Swiss food company Gustav Greig has requested the help of the British technology company Atato to create a blockchain to trace the fish from "bait to plate" in the November of this year.
This gives Gustav Greig's customers access to his blockchain on the pink tuna range to track down the captain, the ship, the capture times, the method and the area, as well as where and when it was processed, has said the commercial director of Pacifical, Maurice Brownjohn.
But the blockchain itself can not guarantee sustainability credentials, Bishop said.
"This still needs to be done by auditors or other technologies, but once the verified data enters the blockchain, they can not be tampered with, which means that provenance can be guaranteed."
Mr. Bishop said the next step was to give consumers an app on a smartphone so they could soon "scan a code on packaged fish or on a restaurant's menu and know that the product they're buying it has been captured or cultivated using methods ".
Mrs. Papacosta said she was willing to consider this kind of supply chain management in Australia because "from an industrial point of view what happened with strawberries this year [when punnets were tampered with] it can shake up an industry and blockchain technology could allow us to call back more quickly. "
