Sustainable Seafood to Your iPhone
Posted on | July 20, 2010 | 2 Comments
Now is a good time to reach out to all you iPhone users. Steve Jobs once again rocked the tech world a few weeks ago with the release of Apple’s iPhone 4. And another useful new sustainable seafood app was launched earlier this month. SOP follows up on its Tools of the Trade post to focus on iPhone applications.
The Blue Ocean Institute recently made its FishPhone application available for free through the iTunes store website. Once downloaded to your iPhone, the app provides seafood sustainability rankings wherever you are. Plus it gives you wine pairings and recipes for your fish of choice. The app was developed in partnership with a Brancott Vineyards.
SOP previously reported on the Monterey Bay Aquarium iPhone app. It too is free and available at the iTunes store. The Aquarium’s app offers a few cool and unique features. It loads up different guides specific to what region of the country you are in. And there is a sushi guide that gives you the Japanese name of fish in addition to its common name.
Yet another iPhone app dedicated to sustainable seafood is Safe Seafood. This one costs a whopping $0.99 through iTunes. It claims to draw on multiple sources of seafood rankings and data from environmental groups, government, and academia. Safe Seafood also gives you a link to each species Wikipedia page, so you can shell out random fish facts to impress your friends. To make you feel even more warm and fuzzy when downloading this app, 10% of the proceeds are donated to the Environmental Defense Fund.
As usual, SOP must throw out its disclaimer…..none of these tools is THE authority on sustainable seafood. They all have strengths and limitations. Give one or all a test ride. Those of us with don’t roll with the iPhone would love to hear about your experiences with them.
Tags: fish > iPhone > iTunes > Monterey Bay Aquarium > seafood > Seafood Watch > sustainable
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July 21st, 2010 @ 9:47 AM
It bugs me that they don’t make any for Android. There don’t even seem to be easy websites to access the information on. Making it extremely difficult to make decisions while out dining.
July 21st, 2010 @ 1:53 PM
You raise important issues. Each maker of the iPhone apps provides an email address for comments. They need to hear from people like you.
info@blueocean.org
equarist@mbayaq.org
support@seafoodapp.com