February 9, 2016 • Page 6 shop online at www.missourivalleyshopper.com Are Your Favorite Restaurants and Stores Going Green? (StatePoint) Some of your favorite restaurant chains and major supermarkets are teaming up with conservation groups and interested citizens to help protect the environment and sustain fisheries long term. Consumers and major chains like McDonalds and Costco are increasingly voicing their concerns about sustainability issues that impact the planet and what we put on our family’s plates. You may not realize it, but the largest canyons in the world are not found on land, but actually deep in the ocean off the coast of Alaska. These areas are teeming with marine life significant to the ecosystem and the economy. While out of sight, experts say these important canyons should not be out of mind for families when they make decisions about where to shop and at which chain restaurants they choose to dine. “The fragile corals and sponges in the Bering Sea canyons are valuable habitat, providing food, spawning and nursery zones, and shelter for commercially important fish and crab species and an array of marine life at the base of the food chain,” says Jackie Dragon, senior oceans campaigner at Greenpeace. “When massive and heavy fishing gear comes in contact with slow-growing, fragile corals and sponges, the fishing gear wins, and the ecosystem loses.” Fishery managers on the east coast have already taken measures to restrict bottom-contact fishing in areas that contain known deep-sea coral or sponge communities, a policy aligned with guidance from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. However, efforts to enact such measures in the highly productive, so-called “Green Belt” in the Bering Sea have proven controversial, and have been vocally opposed by fishing group lobbyists. “The Bering Sea is America’s ‘fish basket’ and it makes sense to protect the ecosystem that puts food on our supermarket shelves,” says Dragon. “Alaska has a reputation for having the finest fisheries management, but on this issue they need to catch up with fisheries on the east coast.” More than a dozen of the largest supermarket chains and seafood buyers, including Safeway, McDonalds and Costco have joined conservation groups and hundreds of thousands of citizens in urging fishing restrictions that scientists say would protect these ecosystems, helping to sustain the fisheries long term. More about these efforts can be found at www.BeringSeaCanyons.org. Greenpeace recently released its 9th annual Carting Away the Oceans report, which gives consumers a look into how their local supermarkets are scoring on sustainable seafood. Learn where your supermarket stands on protecting the Bering Sea canyons here: www.greenpeace.org/usa/ research/carting-away-theoceans-2015. “This is the first time that supermarkets and big buyers of fish fillets have ever brought their substantial weight to bear on these policy decisions” says Dragon. “Consumers can make an impact by shopping at stores and eating in restaurants that support sustainable fishing.” SDSU Lamb Bonanza Feb. 27 at Frost Arena BROOKINGS, S.D. - South Dakota State University Lamb Bonanza will be held Feb. 27, 2016 at Frost Arena on the campus of South Dakota State University. The event begins at 3:30 p.m. This will be the twentyfourth year of the event which showcases SDSU’s support of lamb and wool production in South Dakota. Lamb Bonanza is held in conjunction with the SDSU men’s basketball game. The game begins at 4:30 p.m. with SDSU men playing Oral Roberts. At 3:30 p.m. the South Dakota Sheep Growers’ Association will serve leg of lamb sandwiches and lamb spread, on the north side of the track in Frost Arena. Pelt auction During halftime, six lamb pelts will be auctioned. Four pelts are decorated with the letters, “SDSU” and two pelts feature the Jackrabbit emblem. Proceeds from pelt sales will provide scholarships to undergraduates in the SDSU Department of Animal Science and the SDSU Athletic Department. The 2016 Lamb Bonanza is sponsored by SDSU departments of Animal Science and Athletics as well as the South Dakota Sheep Growers’ Association. Park it in the CLASSIFIEDS and watch it go fast! 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