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. .