My friend and partner in crime, DRMaciver, pointed me to David McCandless & Derek Guo’s shocking visualisation of Atlantic fish stocks in the Guardian. I’d been vaguely concerned about our fish-eating habits. I happen to love fish but the murmurs about the state of fishing has been making me increasingly uneasy, fuelled by documentaries like Shark Water and Blue Planet. But I find it very hard to make a decision about what’s okay to eat. I simply can’t keep the information in my head.
An IRC buddy of mine, Zarkonnen, had a similar problem and turned the Guardian’s data list into HTML and JSON. I pulled in his JSON and turned it into a mobile-friendly, home-screenable list. Nothing fancy but I’ve been using it for the last few days and have found it genuinely useful already.
So, here it is: Which Fish?
