BEST CHOICES GOOD ALTERNATIVES AVOID How to Use This Guide Abalone (farmed) Clams (US & Canada wild) Basa/Pangasius/Swai Arctic Char (farmed) Cod: Atlantic (handlines, pole and lines) Bass: Striped (US gillnet, pound net) Most of our recommendations, Bass (US farmed) Cod: Pacific (Canada & US) Cod: Atlantic (gillnet, longline, trawl) including all eco-certifications, Catfish (US) Crab: Southern King (Argentina) Cod: Pacific (Japan & Russia) Clams (farmed) Lobster: Spiny (US) Crab (Asia & Russia) aren’t on this guide. Be sure to Cockles Mahi Mahi (Costa Rica, Ecuador, Halibut: Atlantic (wild) check out SeafoodWatch.org Panama & US longlines) Lobster: Spiny (Belize, Brazil, Cod: Pacific (AK) for the full list. Crab: King, Snow & Tanner (AK) Monkfish (US) Honduras & Nicaragua) Lionfish (US) Oysters (US wild) Mahi Mahi (Peru & Taiwan) Best Choices Mussels (farmed) Pollock (Canada longlines, gillnets & US) Orange Roughy Oysters (farmed) Salmon: Atlantic (BC & ME farmed) Octopus Buy first; they’re well managed Rockfish (AK, CA, OR & WA) Salmon (CA, OR & WA) Pollock (Canada trawls & Russia) and caught or farmed responsibly. Scallops: Sea (wild) Salmon (Canada Atlantic, Chile, Sablefish/Black Cod (AK) Shrimp (Canada & US wild, Ecuador, Norway & Scotland) Salmon (New Zealand) Good Alternatives Honduras & Thailand farmed) Sharks Sanddab (CA, OR & WA) Squid (Chile & Peru) Shrimp (other imported sources) Buy, but be aware there are Scallops (farmed) Squid: Jumbo (China) Squid (Argentina, China, India, concerns with how they’re Shrimp (US farmed) Swordfish (US, trolls) Indonesia, Japan & Thailand) Squid (CA) Tilapia (Colombia, Honduras, Swordfish (imported longlines) caught, farmed or managed. Sturgeon (US farmed) Indonesia, Mexico & Taiwan) Tilapia (China) Swordfish (handlines, harpoons) Trout (Canada & Chile farmed) Tuna: Albacore (imported except Avoid Tilapia (Canada, Ecuador, Peru & US) Tuna: Albacore (US longlines) trolls, pole and lines) Take a pass on these for now; Trout (US farmed) Tuna: Skipjack (free school, imported Tuna: Bluefin they’re overfished, lack strong Tuna: Albacore (trolls, pole and lines) trolls, pole and lines, US longlines) Tuna: Skipjack (imported purse seines Tuna: Skipjack (Pacific trolls, management or are caught or Fold on grey lines Tuna: Yellowfin (free school, trolls, & Indian Ocean) pole and lines) pole and lines, US longlines) Tuna: Yellowfin (imported longlines, 1. Cut along outer black line 2. farmed in ways that harm other purse seines & Indian Ocean) marine life or the environment. 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 are guide this in recommendations seafood The Consumer Guide Guide Consumer 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: National Monterey Bay Aquarium Aquarium Bay Monterey ® Yellowfin tuna tuna Yellowfin 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.