What’s so healthy about seafood?
A guide for seafood marketers
Second edition

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The final report of Fisheries Research and Development Corporation project 1996/340, ‘Enhanced usage of contemporary scientific findings on health benefits of seafood to promote fresh seafood consumption’, and the references contained within it, are the main sources of information that were used in the development of this book. The following were additional sources.


Bao, D.Q., Mori, T.A., Burke, V., Puddey, I.B. & Beilin, L.J. ‘Effects of dietary fish and weight reduction on ambulatory blood pressure in overweight hypertensives’. Hypertension 1998; 32: 710–7.

Charnock, J.S. ‘The role of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid-enriched diets in the prevention of ventricular fibrillation’. Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1999; 8:226–30.

de Lorgeril, M., Salen, P., Martin, J-L., Monjaud, I., Delaye, J. & Mamelle, N. ‘Mediterranean diet, traditional risk factors, and the rate of cardiovascular complications after myocardial infarction’. Final report of the Lyon Diet Heart Study. Circulation 1999; 99: 779–85.

Food Standards Australia New Zealand. The Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code, up to Amendment 68.

GISSI-Prevenzione Trial Investigators. ‘Dietary supplementation with n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and vitamin E after myocardial infarction: results of the GISSI-Prevenzione trial’. Lancet 1999; 354: 447–55.

Hibbeln, J.R., Salem, N. Jr. ‘Dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids and depression: when cholesterol does not satisfy’. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1995; 62: 1–9.

Hibbeln, J.R. ‘Fish consumption and major depression’. Lancet 1998; 352: 1213.

Horrocks, L.A. & Yeo, Y.K. ‘Health benefits of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)’. Pharmacological Research 1999; 40: 211–25.

Kamei, M., Fujita, T., Kanbe, T., Sasaki, K., Oshiba, K., Otani, S., Matsui-Yuasa, I. & Morisawa, S. ‘The distribution and content of ubiquinone in foods’. International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research 1986; 56: 57–63.

Weber, C., Bysted, A. & Hølmer, G. ‘The coenzyme Q10 content of the average Danish diet’. International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research 1997; 67: 123–9.

Weisinger, H.S., Armitage, J.A., Sinclair, A.J., Vingrys, A.J., Burns, P.L. & Weisinger, R.S. ‘Perinatal Omega-3 fatty acid deficiency affects blood pressure later in life’. Nature Medicine 2001; 7: 258–9.

Yearsley, G.K., Last, P.R. & Ward R.D. (eds) 1999, Australian seafood handbook: an identification guide to domestic species, CSIRO, Hobart. ISBN 0643 06194 0

Yearsley, G.K., Last, P.R. & Ward R.D. (eds) 2003, Australian seafood handbook: an identification guide to imported species, CSIRO, Hobart. ISBN 1 876996 31 5.



[1]    A hard copy of the full report is available within Australia from the FRDC. The project’s non-technical summary is available on the Internet at www.frdc.com.au/pub/reports/files/96-340.htm

[2]    Canned tuna has lower levels of mercury than fresh southern bluefin tuna because the tuna fish used for canning is a different and smaller species, and is generally caught when less than one year old.

[3]    With one exception that allows for claims linking the consumption of folate with reduced risk of neural tube defects in babies.

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