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Summary: The seafood consumption is recognised as beneficial for health and its consumption is recommended. But how to promote seafood consumption and maintain fisheries at a sustainable level, when many stocks are overexploited? A comprehensive literature review focused on publications from the last two decades was carried out in the electronic library databases, using combinations of the keywords, and the relevant references cited in these sources were carefully analysed. To face this challenge, the involvement of all is needed, and consumers should choose seafood products that are ecologically sustainable (from assessed and well‐managed stocks). These choices should include locally sourced, aquaculture, certified and eco‐labelled products. This review identifies creation of school meal programmes as a major step towards the implementation of important concepts such as healthy and sustainable food choices and hospitality providers as places to educate population about the seafood sustainability by developing menus with sustainable recipes. It is necessary to improve communication with consumers to raise their awareness of sustainable consumption, providing clear and objective messages. Only in this way will it be possible to meet the great challenge of the century and ensure that the production, processing and distribution of food is socially, economically and environmentally sustainable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The beach‐seine fishery is a commercial fishing activity on the Portuguese coast, with reports dating as far back as the early 15th century. The main target species of this fishery are small pelagic fish such as Atlantic chub mackerel, Atlantic horse mackerel and sardine. To identify the best conditions for fishing the target species, catches of beach seine (2007–2017) were used and generalized linear models were applied, using a binomial and gamma distributions. The logistic model explained between 36.3% and 45.7% of the catches variability; the gamma model explained 9.1% and 46.9% of the catches variability, being month and wind direction the best covariates for the occurrence and/or abundance of the three small pelagic fishes in analysis. If the effort is directed to the days that meet the conditions found for each species (sardine: between May and October, wind NW, daytime; Atlantic horse mackerel: May, NW/NE wind, 800 m from the coastline; Atlantic chub mackerel: from July to August, NW moderate wind), a reduction in bycatch and discards can be achieved. This approach can have a positive economic and social impact, since it provides information for turning fisheries more efficient. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]