Arctic Blue Omega 3 60 capsules (280 mg DHA & 120 mg EPA)

Sustainable fishing - MSC certification

To be sustainable, it is necessary to protect food resources in the form of marine animals, without damaging the oceans, the environment or local communities. Therefore, products made from whole ground fish or many small fish will not receive this certification. Grinding the whole fish is highly uneconomical; a sustainable option is to use the trimmings left over after using the fish for meat. Arctic Blue oils are therefore made from the offcuts of cod fillets. Because of their lower price, many fish oils are made from sardines and anchovies, small fish with a typically strong salty taste that were considered unsaleable waste just 70 years ago. Just to give you an idea - it takes 30 anchovies to make one fish oil capsule. Such fishing is known as reduction fishing and is inherently unsustainable - it uneconomically destroys entire stocks of fish, which are used only for oil, the meat being used as food for livestock. And because small fish such as sardines or anchovies are a food source for larger species such as dolphins or seabirds, this fishing disrupts the marine ecosystem.