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100 Ways to be Greener
Fishing for Dinner
      by Starre Vartan
Who doesn’t love a little sushi? But make sure there’s nothing fishy about the seafood you buy, and bite, into.
 
Why: Some seafood is high in environmental contaminants like mercury, and some species are overfished and at risk of becoming endangered. Fisheries worldwide are in decline and since fish are at the top of the ocean's food chain, maintaining healthy populations is necessary to maintain the overall viability of the seas.
 
What to do and where to go: Choosing your seafood carefully not only benefits your health. It supports fisheries and fish farms that are better for ocean wildlife and the environment. "The best thing about sustainable fish?" says Tim O'Shea of Clean Fish, a California supplier of sustainable seafood. "It's a happy bonus that really good quality fish has been handled better and caught or cultivated well."
 
Best Seafood Choices:
Abalone (farmed)
Catfish (US farmed)
Clams, Mussels, Oysters (farmed)
Cod: Pacific (trap or hook & line-caught)
Crab: Dungeness, Snow (Canada)
Halibut: Pacific
Lobster: Spiny (US)
Pollock (wild-caught from AK)*
Sablefish/Black Cod (AK, BC)
Salmon (wild-caught from AK)*
Sardines
Shrimp: Pink (OR)
Spot Prawn (BC)
Striped Bass (farmed)
Tilapia (farmed)
Trout: Rainbow (farmed)
Tuna: Albacore, Bigeye, Yellowfin (troll/pole-caught)
White Seabass
 
Good Alternative Seafood Choices:
Basa/Tra (farmed)
Clams, Oysters† (wild-caught)
Cod: Pacific (longline or trawl-caught)
Crab: King (AK), Snow (US), imitation
Dogfish (BC)†
Lingcod
Lobster: American/Maine
Mahi mahi/Dolphinfish/Dorado
Rockfish (hook & line caught from AK, BC)†
Sablefish/Black Cod (CA, OR, WA)
Salmon (wild-caught from CA, OR, WA)
Sanddabs: Pacific
Scallops: Bay, Sea
Shrimp (US farmed or wild-caught)
Sole: English, Dover, Petrale, Rex
Spot Prawn (US)
Squid
Sturgeon (wild-caught from OR, WA)
Swordfish (US)†
Tuna: Albacore, Bigeye, Yellowfin (longline-caught)†
Tuna: canned light
Tuna: canned white/Albacore†
 
Seafood to Avoid:
Chilean Seabass/Toothfish†
Cod: Atlantic
Crab: King (imported)
Dogfish (US)†
Grenadier/Pacific Roughy
Lobster: Spiny (Caribbean imported)
Monkfish
Orange Roughy†
Rockfish (trawl-caught)†
Salmon (farmed, including Atlantic)†
Sharks†
Shrimp (imported farmed or wild-caught)
Sturgeon†, Caviar (imported wild-caught)
Swordfish (imported)†
Tuna: Bluefin†
 
Notes on the above list:
AK=Alaska; BC=British Columbia; CA=California; OR=Oregon; WA=Washington; US=United States
† Limit consumption due to concerns about mercury or other contaminants (click for more)
* Certified as sustainable to the Marine Stewardship Council standard
(Contaminant information provided by Environmental Defense; recommendations reprinted with the permission of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation.)
 
Find more reading on the subject:
Seafood Handbook
 
Find out even more online:
Oceans Alive
 
Audubon's Seafood Guide (wallet-sized printouts available)
 
Seafood Watch
 
Marine Stewardship Council
 
Natural Resources Defense Council
 
Environmental Defense

 

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