# Loophole listing keeps seafood qualifying as critically endangered on the menu

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- Published: 2026-11-04T04:40:01+00:00
- Category: Science
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One of Australia's most dangerously overfished species, redfish (Centroberyx affinis), will continue to be served on our dinner tables following its latest listing as "conservation dependent." The classification is a loophole allowing species that qualify for critically endangered listings and protections to instead be killed and sold for seafood.

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