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Seafood: Best, Alternative and Avoid at all costs.

Fri Apr 28, 2006 at 09:58:55 PM PDT

As a member of the The Ocean Project (Scroll down. I'm the first one whose logo they don't bother to put up.), I need to do one seafood consumer public service post every 1,000 blog entries (it's in my contract).  So here it is:

We've put out (most of the work was actually done by the Monterey Bay Aquarium) a guide to seafood choices with three catagories: Best choices (fish that are abundant, well managed and caught or farmed in environmentally friendly ways),  Alternative Choices (good alternatives but with some concerns about how they are caught or farmed), and Avoid! (species that that are overfished or caught/farmed in ways that are environmentally harmful).

Best Choices:

    Catfish (US farmed)
    Clams (farmed)
    Softshell clams (wild-caught)
    Dungeness crab (Canada)
    Croaker (Atlantic)
    Halibut (Pacific)
    Herring (Atlantic)
    Lobster (Spiny, US)
    Mussels (farmed)
    Oysters (farmed)
    Pollock (wild caught)
    Salmon (wild caught)
    Striped bass (farmed or wild caught)
    Sturgeon caviar (farmed)
    Tilapia (farmed)
    Rainbow trout (farmed)
    Albacore, Bigeye and Yellowfin Tuna (troll or pole caught)

Alternatives:

    Basa (farmed)
    Black Sea Bass
    Bluefish
    Hard shell clams (wild caught)
    Blue crab
    Rock crab
    King crab (Alaska)
    Imitation crabmeat or surimi
    Haddock (line caught)
    Hake (Red or Silver)
    Lobster (New England)
    Mahi mahi or Dolphinfish
    Oysters (wild caught)
    Scallops (Bay)
    Scallops (Deep-sea, Canada)
    Scup
    Shrimp (Canada)
    Shrimp (US farmed raised)
    Squid
    Swordfish (US)
    Tilefish (Mid-Atlantic)
    Albacore, Bigeye or Yellowfin Tuna (longline caught)
    Tuna (canned dolphin-safe)

Avoid!

    Chilean Sea bass
    Cod (Atlantic)
    King crab (imported)
    Dogfish (Atlantic)
    Flounder (Atlantic, all species)
    Haddock (trawl caught)
    Hake (White)
    Halibut (Atlantic)
    Monkfish
    Orange Roughy
    Salmon (farmed)
    Scallops (Deep sea mid-Atlantic)
    Sharks
    Skates
    Shrimp (imported farmed or wild caught)
    Red snapper
    Sturgeon caviar (imported wild caught)
    Swordfish (imported)
    Tilefish (Southeast)
    Tuna (Bluefin)

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