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How To Use This Guide Seafood in The Bahamas Bahamas ALTERNATIVES Seafood nd th The seafood in this guide may Bahamians depend on marine Nassau Grouper (Feb. 2 – Nov. 30 ) occur in more than one column resources for food, recreation Queen Conch ( mature-formed lip ) based on how it is caught, and employment. While here in Mackerel Fish The Bahamas, your choices as Bar Jack WATCH where it is from, etc. Read all the columns and be sure to a consumer will make a Lion Fish check labels or ask questions difference. Listed below are Wahoo * when shopping or eating out. some of the seafood available locally and a few guidelines that Bahamas AVOID ∗ Where is the seafood from? will ensure your support the healthy management of our st st ∗ Is it farmed or wildwild----caught?caught? Spiny Lobster ( April 1 – July 31 ) marine resources. Stone Crab (June 1 st – Oct. 15 th ) ∗ How was it caught? st st Grouper (Dec. 1 —Feb 1 ) If you are not sure, choose Bahamas BEST CHOICES Turtle (meat and eggs) Nassau Grouper something else from the green Horse-Eye Jacks * Spanish Lobster U.S. & Bahamas or yellow columns. Spiny Lobster ( Aug. 1 st – March 31 st ) Dolphin Fish Stone Crab (Oct. 16 th - May 30 th ) Barracuda * Seafood Guide Seafood recommendations in French or Blue-Striped Grunts Swordfish * this guide are credited to the Yellowtail Snapper Bonefish (imported) Monterey Bay Aquarium Margate Snapper Shark Make Choices Foundation & the Bahamas Mutton Snapper Make Choices Reef Environmental Gray Snapper ∗ Limit consumption due to For Healthy concerns about mercury, Sigaterra Education Foundation. Mahi-Mahi Goggle-Eye or other contaminants Oceans! U.S. BEST CHOICES U.S. GOOD ALTERNATIVES U.S. AVOID Use This Guide to Make Choices for Cod: Pacific (trap or hook & line caught) Cod: Pacific (long-line or trawl-caught) Shrimp (imp. farmed or wild-caught) Crab: Dungeness, Snow (Canada), Stone Crab: Blue* , King (Alaska), Snow (U.S.) Salmon (farmed, including Atlantic) Healthy Oceans Striped Bass (farmed or wild-caught) * Scallops: Sea (Northeast or Canada) Sharks * (imported wild-caught) Pollock (wild-caught from Alaska) * Shrimp (U.S. farmed or wild-caught) Scallops: Sea (Mid-Atlantic) Best Choices Salmon (wild-caught from Alaska )* Tuna: Albacore, Big Eye, Yellowfin Chilean Seabass/ Toothfish * These are your best seafood choices! Tuna: Albacore, Bigeye, Yellowfin (long-line caught) Flounders/Soles (Atlantic) These fish are abundant, well-managed (troll/pole-caught) Mahi Mahi/ Dolphin Fish/ Dorado Lobster: Spiny (Caribbean) and caught or farmed in environmentally Sturgeon, Caviar (farmed) Tuna: canned white/Albacore * Swordfish (imported) * friendly ways. Trout: Rainbow (farmed) Lobster: American/Maine Crab: King (imported) Catfish (U.S. farmed) Crab: imitation/Surimi Rockfish (Pacific) * Lobster: Spiny (U.S.) Oysters (wild-caught) Sturgeon *, Caviar Good Alternatives Mussels (farmed) Clams (wild-caught) Halibut: Atlantic These are good alternatives to the Best Oysters (farmed) Bass/Tra (farmed) Orange Roughy * Choice column. However, there are Tilapia (farmed) Tuna: canned light Cod: Atlantic concerns with how they are caught or Clams (farmed) Swordfish (U.S.) * Tuna: Bluefin * farmed or with the health of their Halibut: Pacific Soles (Pacific) Snapper: Red habitat due to other human impacts. Sardines Scallops: Bay Groupers * Squid Monkfish Avoid Avoid these fish, at least for now. They ∗ Limit consumption due to concerns about For more information, go to: come form sources that are overfished Northeast= Connecticut to Maine mercury or other contaminants Mid-Atlantic= North Carolina to New York ∗ Certified as sustainable to the Marine www.seafoodwatch.org and/or caught or farmed in ways that U.S. = United States Stewardship Council standard www.breef.org harm other marine life or the environment. .

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Clean &Unclean Meats

Clean & Unclean Meats God expects all who desire to have a relationship with Him to live holy lives (Exodus 19:6; 1 Peter 1:15). The Bible says following God’s instructions regarding the meat we eat is one aspect of living a holy life (Leviticus 11:44-47). Modern research indicates that there are health benets to eating only the meat of animals approved by God and avoiding those He labels as unclean. Here is a summation of the clean (acceptable to eat) and unclean (not acceptable to eat) animals found in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14. For further explanation, see the LifeHopeandTruth.com article “Clean and Unclean Animals.” BIRDS CLEAN (Eggs of these birds are also clean) Chicken Prairie chicken Dove Ptarmigan Duck Quail Goose Sage grouse (sagehen) Grouse Sparrow (and all other Guinea fowl songbirds; but not those of Partridge the corvid family) Peafowl (peacock) Swan (the KJV translation of “swan” is a mistranslation) Pheasant Teal Pigeon Turkey BIRDS UNCLEAN Leviticus 11:13-19 (Eggs of these birds are also unclean) All birds of prey Cormorant (raptors) including: Crane Buzzard Crow (and all Condor other corvids) Eagle Cuckoo Ostrich Falcon Egret Parrot Kite Flamingo Pelican Hawk Glede Penguin Osprey Grosbeak Plover Owl Gull Raven Vulture Heron Roadrunner Lapwing Stork Other birds including: Loon Swallow Albatross Magpie Swi Bat Martin Water hen Bittern Ossifrage Woodpecker ANIMALS CLEAN Leviticus 11:3; Deuteronomy 14:4-6 (Milk from these animals is also clean) Addax Hart Antelope Hartebeest Beef (meat of domestic cattle) Hirola chews
Southwest Guide: Your Use to Word

BEST CHOICES GOOD ALTERNATIVES AVOID How to Use This Guide Arctic Char (farmed) Clams (US & Canada wild) Bass: Striped (US gillnet, pound net) Bass (US farmed) Cod: Pacific (Canada & US) Basa/Pangasius/Swai Most of our recommendations, Catfish (US) Crab: Southern King (Argentina) Branzino (Mediterranean farmed) including all eco-certifications, Clams (farmed) Lobster: Spiny (US) Cod: Atlantic (gillnet, longline, trawl) aren’t on this guide. Be sure to Cockles Mahi Mahi (Costa Rica, Ecuador, Cod: Pacific (Japan & Russia) Cod: Pacific (AK) Panama & US longlines) Crab (Asia & Russia) check out SeafoodWatch.org Crab: King, Snow & Tanner (AK) Oysters (US wild) Halibut: Atlantic (wild) for the full list. Lobster: Spiny (Belize, Brazil, Lionfish (US) Sablefish/Black Cod (Canada wild) Honduras & Nicaragua) Lobster: Spiny (Mexico) Salmon: Atlantic (BC & ME farmed) Best Choices Mahi Mahi (Peru & Taiwan) Mussels (farmed) Salmon (CA, OR & WA) Octopus Buy first; they’re well managed Oysters (farmed) Shrimp (Canada & US wild, Ecuador, Orange Roughy and caught or farmed responsibly. Rockfish (AK, CA, OR & WA) Honduras & Thailand farmed) Salmon (Canada Atlantic, Chile, Sablefish/Black Cod (AK) Squid (Chile & Peru) Norway & Scotland) Good Alternatives Salmon (New Zealand) Squid: Jumbo (China) Sharks Buy, but be aware there are Scallops (farmed) Swordfish (US, trolls) Shrimp (other imported sources) Seaweed (farmed) Tilapia (Colombia, Honduras Squid (Argentina, China, India, concerns with how they’re Shrimp (US farmed) Indonesia, Mexico & Taiwan) Indonesia,
Seafood Watch Seafood Report

Seafood Watch Seafood Report U.S. Farmed Hybrid Striped Bass Morone chrysops X Morone saxatilis (Photo by Gerald Ludwig, Courtesy of USDA-ARS) Final Report August 31, 2005 Brendan O’Neill Private Consultant Seafood Watch® Farmed Hybrid Striped Bass Report August 31, 2005 About Seafood Watch® and the Seafood Reports Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch® program evaluates the ecological sustainability of wild-caught and farmed seafood commonly found in the United States marketplace. Seafood Watch® defines sustainable seafood as originating from sources, whether wild-caught or farmed, which can maintain or increase production in the long-term without jeopardizing the structure or function of affected ecosystems. Seafood Watch® makes its science-based recommendations available to the public in the form of regional pocket guides that can be downloaded from the Internet (seafoodwatch.org) or obtained from the Seafood Watch® program by emailing [email protected]. The program’s goals are to raise awareness of important ocean conservation issues and empower seafood consumers and businesses to make choices for healthy oceans. Each sustainability recommendation on the regional pocket guides is supported by a Seafood Report. Each report synthesizes and analyzes the most current ecological, fisheries and ecosystem science on a species, then evaluates this information against the program’s conservation ethic to arrive at a recommendation of “Best Choices”, “Good Alternatives” or “Avoid.” The detailed evaluation methodology is available upon request. In producing the Seafood Reports, Seafood Watch® seeks out research published in academic, peer-reviewed journals whenever possible. Other sources of information include government technical publications, fishery management plans and supporting documents, and other scientific reviews of ecological sustainability.
Roe-Guide.Pdf

WILD | NATURA L | SUSTAINABLE SUJIKO The cold, clean waters of Alaska provide a healthy, natural habitat for the five species of wild Alaska salmon. Each year, this e e raditional Japanese sujiko features salted and cured Alaska salmon roe within L e v e T the natural membrane or film (in-sac). Sujiko is a Japanese word composed t rich environment yields millions of high quality fish, famous S of “suji,” which means “line,” and “ko,” which means “child.” The name refers to the way in which the eggs are lined up in the ovary. The raw egg sacs are washed for their delicious flavor and superior texture. These same wild in a saturated brine solution, drained, packed with salt and then allowed to cure. All Alaska seafood is wild and sustainable and is managed Grading Information salmon produce some of the world’s finest roe, bursting with all Typically, there are three standard grades of sujiko: No.1, No.2 and No.3, plus for protection against overfishing, habitat damage and pollution. “off-grade” which includes roe that is cut, broken, soft, or off-color. In general, that is best about Alaska salmon. In Alaska, the fish come first! high-grade sujiko usually follow these guidelines: • Eggs are large in size for the species Alaska salmon roe is a wild, natural product high in lean Unlike fish stocks in other parts of the world, no Alaska • Color is bright and uniform throughout salmon stocks are threatened or endangered. For this reason, the sac protein and omega-3 fatty acids.
Seafood Watch® Standard for Fisheries

1 Seafood Watch® Standard for Fisheries Table of Contents Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................... 1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 2 Seafood Watch Guiding Principles ...................................................................................................... 3 Seafood Watch Criteria and Scoring Methodology for Fisheries ........................................................... 5 Criterion 1 – Impacts on the Species Under Assessment ...................................................................... 8 Factor 1.1 Abundance .................................................................................................................... 9 Factor 1.2 Fishing Mortality ......................................................................................................... 19 Criterion 2 – Impacts on Other Capture Species ................................................................................ 22 Factor 2.1 Abundance .................................................................................................................. 26 Factor 2.2 Fishing Mortality ......................................................................................................... 27 Factor 2.3 Modifying Factor: Discards and Bait Use .................................................................... 29 Criterion
Seafood Watch Seafood Report

Seafood Watch Seafood Report Farmed Crayfish Procambarus clarkii (Photo: James W. Fetzner, Jr.) Southeast Region Final Report 8/17/05 Patricia Halpin, PhD Independent Consultant Marine Science Institute UC Santa Barbara Halpin_Crayfish_farmed_ZB_8-17-05.doc 8/18/2005 About Seafood Watch® and the Seafood Reports Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch® program evaluates the ecological sustainability of wild-caught and farmed seafood commonly found in the United States marketplace. Seafood Watch® defines sustainable seafood as originating from sources, whether wild-caught or farmed, which can maintain or increase production in the long-term without jeopardizing the structure or function of affected ecosystems. Seafood Watch® makes its science-based recommendations available to the public in the form of regional pocket guides that can be downloaded from the Internet (seafoodwatch.org) or obtained from the Seafood Watch® program by emailing [email protected]. The program’s goals are to raise awareness of important ocean conservation issues and empower seafood consumers and businesses to make choices for healthy oceans. Each sustainability recommendation on the regional pocket guides is supported by a Seafood Report. Each report synthesizes and analyzes the most current ecological, fisheries and ecosystem science on a species, then evaluates this information against the program’s conservation ethic to arrive at a recommendation of “Best Choice,” “Good Alternative,” or “Avoid.” The detailed evaluation methodology is available upon request. In producing the Seafood Reports, Seafood Watch® seeks out research published in academic, peer-reviewed journals whenever possible. Other sources of information include government technical publications, fishery management plans and supporting documents, and other scientific reviews of ecological sustainability.
Indiana Division of Fish & Wildlife's Animal Information Series: Paddlefish

Indiana Division of Fish & Wildlife’s Animal Information Series Paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) Do they have any other names? Paddlefish are also called spoonbill, spoonbill cat, shovelnose cat, and boneless cat. Why are they called paddlefish? They are called paddlefish because of their paddle-like nose. Polyodon is Greek for “many tooth” in reference to the numerous long gill rakers and spathula is Latin for “spatula” or “blade.” What do they look like? Paddlefish are shark-like fish with long, paddle-shaped snouts. They have large mouths, without teeth, that are located far back on the underside of the head. Paddlefish have many gill rakers (filaments used to filter food from the water) that are long and slender. The eyes are small and just above the front edge of the mouth. The rear margin of the gill cover is long and pointed into a fleshy flap. The tail is deeply lobed with the upper lobe longer than the lower lobe. The skin is without scales and the skeleton is made of cartilage. Paddlefish are bluish-gray to black on the upper parts and light gray to white on the belly. Photo Credit: Duane Raver, USFWS Where do they live in Indiana? Paddlefish are rare to occasional in Indiana and they live in large rivers. What kind of habitat do they need? A paddlefish needs very specific habitat conditions to meet its needs. During most of its life it lives in quiet or slow-flowing waters rich in the microscopic life (zooplankton) on which it feeds. However, it must have access to a large, free-flowing river with gravel bars that flood frequently during its spawning season.
Standard for Aquaculture Species

1 Seafood Watch® Standard for Aquaculture Introduction ................................................................................................................ 2 Seafood Watch Guiding Principles for Aquaculture ....................................................... 3 Seafood Watch Criteria and Scoring Methodology for Aquaculture ............................... 4 Criterion 1 - Data ................................................................................................................ 5 Criterion 2 - Effluent ............................................................................................................ 8 Effluent: Evidence-Based Assessment (based on good data availability and quality) ........... 12 Effluent: Risk-Based Assessment (based on poor data availability or quality) ...................... 13 Effluent: Factor 2.1 – Waste discharged per ton of fish ......................................................... 14 Effluent: Factor 2.2 – Management of farm-level and cumulative impacts ........................... 16 Criterion 3 – Habitat .......................................................................................................... 19 Habitat: Factor 3.1 – Habitat conversion and function .......................................................... 23 Habitat: Factor 3.2 – Farm siting regulation and management ............................................. 25 Criterion 4 – Chemical Use................................................................................................. 27 Criterion 5 - Feed
Caviar and Conservation

Caviar and Conservation Status, Management, and Trade of North American Sturgeon and Paddlefish Douglas F.Williamson May 2003 TRAFFIC North America World Wildlife Fund 1250 24th Street NW Washington DC 20037 Visit www.traffic.org for an electronic edition of this report, and for more information about TRAFFIC North America. © 2003 WWF. All rights reserved by World Wildlife Fund, Inc. All material appearing in this publication is copyrighted and may be reproduced with permission. Any reproduction, in full or in part, of this publication must credit TRAFFIC North America. The views of the author expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect those of the TRAFFIC Network, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), or IUCN-The World Conservation Union. The designation of geographical entities in this publication and the presentation of the material do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of TRAFFIC or its supporting organizations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The TRAFFIC symbol copyright and Registered Trademark ownership are held by WWF. TRAFFIC is a joint program of WWF and IUCN. Suggested citation: Williamson, D. F. 2003. Caviar and Conservation: Status, Management and Trade of North American Sturgeon and Paddlefish. TRAFFIC North America. Washington D.C.: World Wildlife Fund. Front cover photograph of a lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) by Richard T. Bryant, courtesy of the Tennessee Aquarium. Back cover photograph of a paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) by Richard T. Bryant, courtesy of the Tennessee Aquarium. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface .
Food from the Sea Raised in Coastal Waters And, Therefore, the Pollution Generated by the Farm Flows Into the Coastal Water

Food from the Sea raised in coastal waters and, therefore, the pollution generated by the farm flows into the coastal water . According to Leviticus 11:9-12, any fish that has fins and Large numbers of salmon are kept in a pen, resulting scales is kosher . These criterion rule out seafood such in diseases and parasites, which can easily spread to as eels, shellfish, and catfish . Fish is considered pareve wild salmon swimming nearby . It is not uncommon and can be eaten with either milk or meat . There is no for the farmed salmon to break out of these pens and particular method of slaughter required for fish and, compete with wild salmon populations . Additionally, therefore, any fresh fish with fins and scales is kosher . farm raised salmon require approximately 3 pounds of wild fish to produce 1 pound of farmed salmon, which Fish are the last group of wild animals that are hunted is an unsustainable ratio . The most sustainable options for large scale consumption . As worldwide demand for farmed fish include those which are herbivores for fish has increased, wild fish populations can’t keep or omnivores . Some of the best farm raised options up with our appetites, and find themselves threatened include: arctic char, striped bass, and U .S . raised by overfishing (harvesting at faster rates than the barramundi, cobia, tilapia, and rainbow trout . population can reproduce) and by-catch (accidental death caused by trawls, dredges, long-lining, purse seining, and gill-netting) . Scientists suspect that due HOW YOUR INSTITUTION CAN SOURCE AND to overfishing and by-catch, 90% of the large predatory USE SUSTAINABLE FISH: fish populations have been depleted .
3Rd February 2015 Dear Sir/Madam the Monterey Bay Aquarium

3rd February 2015 Dear Sir/Madam The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program helps consumers and businesses make choices for healthy oceans. Our recommendations indicate which seafood items are "Best Choices," "Good Alternatives," and which ones you should "Avoid." Seafood Watch recommendations are science-based, peer reviewed, and use ecosystem-based criteria. Our response to this consultation reflects what we consider important additions to the Alaska Responsible Fisheries Management (RFM) Conformance Criteria that would ensure that fisheries certified to the standard could be supported by Seafood Watch in discussion with our business and consumer audiences. We thank Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute for the opportunity to comment on the RFM Conformance Criteria and welcome the increased transparency surrounding the standard and the assessment process. We do however feel that there is a need for further clarity on the assessment process, particularly regarding who performs the assessments, how these individual(s) are selected, and how stakeholders may engage in the assessment process. Rather than speak to individual conformance criterion, this response will focus on common areas of improvement which we believe would strengthen the standard and could be applied to several or all of the 6 key components. Inclusion of all Applicable FAO Guidelines The RFM Conformance Criteria is based on key FAO reference documents, yet there are additional FAO Guidelines and technical documents that have not been included and we believe that the
Comparison of Chemical Composition and Safety Issues in Fish Roe Products: Application of Chemometrics to Chemical Data

foods Article Comparison of Chemical Composition and Safety Issues in Fish Roe Products: Application of Chemometrics to Chemical Data Mauro Vasconi 1 , Erica Tirloni 2, Simone Stella 2, Chiara Coppola 2 , Annalaura Lopez 1,* , Federica Bellagamba 1 , Cristian Bernardi 2 and Vittorio Maria Moretti 1 1 Department of Veterinary Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via dell’Università, 6, 26900 Lodi (LO), Italy; [email protected] (M.V.); [email protected] (F.B.); [email protected] (V.M.M.) 2 Department of Health, Animal Science and Food Safety, University of Milan, Via dell’Università, 6, 26900 Lodi (LO), Italy; [email protected] (E.T.); [email protected] (S.S.); [email protected] (C.C.); [email protected] (C.B.) * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +39-02-50315759 Received: 22 March 2020; Accepted: 21 April 2020; Published: 27 April 2020 Abstract: Processed fish roes are acquiring considerable importance in the modern food market, entering more and more often as an ingredient in food preparation and as caviar substitutes. In this study, we defined quality, traceability and safety issues related to processed fish roe products from different species. The results obtained allowed to distinguish eggs originated from different fish species and to discriminate between fish roes and caviar samples obtained from four different sturgeons species. We observed that roes showed a trend of grouping according to ecological and reproductive habits of fish species. We highlighted the differences between eggs originated by farmed and freshwater fish, enriched in n6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), and all the others, in which n3 PUFAs were prevalent.