BEST CHOICES GOOD ALTERNATIVES AVOID How to Use This Guide Bass (US farmed) Clams (US & Canada wild) Bass: Striped (US gillnet, pound net) Catfish (US) Cod: Atlantic (handlines, pole and lines) Branzino (Mediterranean farmed) Most of our recommendations, Clams (farmed) Conch (US) Cod: Atlantic (gillnet, longline, trawl) including all eco-certifications, Cockles Crawfish (LA wild) Conch (imported) Cod: Pacific (AK) Crab: Blue (AL, DE, MD & NJ pots) Crab (Asia & Russia) aren’t on this guide. Be sure to Crab: Blue (MD trotline) Crab: Southern King (Argentina) Crab: Blue (FL, GA, LA,MS, NC, SC, TX &V A) check out SeafoodWatch.org Grouper: Red (US) Crab: Stone (FL) Crab: King, Snow & Tanner (AK) Lobster: Spiny (US) Crawfish (China) for the full list. Crawfish (US farmed) Mahi Mahi (Costa Rica, Ecuador, Lobster: Spiny (Belize, Brazil, Lionfish (US) Panama & US longlines) Honduras & Nicaragua) Best Choices Mullet: Striped (US) Oysters (US wild) Mahi Mahi (Peru & Taiwan) Buy first; they’re well managed Mussels (farmed) Salmon: Atlantic (BC & ME farmed) Orange Roughy and caught or farmed responsibly. Oysters (farmed) Salmon (CA, OR & WA) Salmon (Canada Atlantic, Chile, Pompano (US) Shrimp (Canada & US wild, Ecuador, Norway & Scotland) Good Alternatives Salmon (New Zealand) Honduras & Thailand farmed) Sardines: Atlantic (Mediterranean) Shrimp (US farmed) Snapper (US) Sharks Buy, but be aware there are Snapper: Mutton (US diving, handlines) Squid (Chile & Peru) Shrimp (other imported sources) concerns with how they’re Squid (CA) Squid: Jumbo (China) Squid (Argentina, China, India, caught, farmed or managed. Sturgeon (US farmed) Swordfish (US, trolls) Indonesia, Japan & Thailand) Swordfish (handlines, harpoons) Tilapia (Colombia, Honduras, Swordfish (imported longlines) Avoid Tilapia (Canada, Ecuador, Peru & US) Indonesia, Mexico & Taiwan) Tilapia (China) Trout (Canada & Chile farmed) Tuna: Albacore (imported except trolls, Take a pass on these for now; Tuna: Albacore (trolls, pole and lines) Tuna: Albacore (US longlines) pole and lines) they’re overfished, lack strong Tuna: Skipjack (Pacific trolls, pole and lines) Tuna: Skipjack (free school, imported Tuna: Bluefin Wahoo (US Atlantic pole and lines) management or are caught or Fold on grey lines trolls, pole and lines, US longlines) Tuna: Skipjack (imported purse seines Wreckfish 1. Cut along outer black line 2. Tuna: Yellowfin (free school, trolls, pole & Indian Ocean) farmed in ways that harm other and lines, US longlines) Tuna: Yellowfin (imported longlines, marine life or the environment. purse seines & Indian Ocean) atch.org atch.org W d Seafoo a process that is 100% carbon neutral. neutral. carbon 100% is that process a reserved. rights All 21. 0 ©2 021 021 2 December – July using paper, recycled 100% on Printed credited to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation Foundation Aquarium Bay Monterey the to credited Consumer Guide Guide Consumer are guide this in recommendations seafood The The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program creates science-based recommendations that help consumers and businesses make ocean-friendly seafood choices. Carry this guide with you and share it with others to help spread the word. To use your guide: Southeast Monterey Bay Aquarium Aquarium Bay Monterey Lionfish ® h SeafoodWatch.org SeafoodWatch.org tc the full list, visit us at at us visit list, full the For For shopping. and dining dWa TCH WA for popular seafood when when seafood popular for oo Use these recommendations recommendations these Use can’t find a Best Choice. Choice. Best a find can’t Seaf generations. ® choices. seafood responsible if you you if options eco-certified the ocean, now and for future future for and now ocean, for our ocean by making making by ocean our for Good Alternatives or or Alternatives Good CHOOSE ® ® food food Sea ways that support a healthy healthy a support that ways You can make a difference difference a make can You that’s fished or farmed in in farmed or fished that’s Best Choices first. first. Choices Best BUY businesses choose seafood seafood choose businesses farming practices. practices. farming helps consumers and and consumers helps know it is important to you. you. to important is it know destructive fishing and and fishing destructive businesses Let seafood?” Seafood Watch program program Watch Seafood to due trouble in are Monterey Bay Aquarium Aquarium Bay Monterey Aquarium Bay Monterey The sustainable sell you “Do ASK enjoy we fish the of Many Seafood Watch Watch Seafood Action Take Matter Choices Your Monterey Bay Aquarium.