Seafood Watch - West Coast Seafood Guide

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Your consumer choices make a difference. Buy seafood from the green or yellow columns to support those fisheries and fish farms that are healthier for ocean wildlife and the environment.

 Best Choices  Good Alternatives  Avoid
Abalone (farmed)

Catfish (U.S. farmed)

Clams (farmed)

Cod: Pacific (trap or hook & line caught.)

Crab: Dungeness, Snow (Canada)

Halibut: Pacific

Lobster: Spiny (U.S.)

Mussels (farmed)

Oysters (farmed)

Pollock (wild-caught from Alaska)

Sablefish/Black Cod (Alaska or BC)

Salmon (wild-caught from Alaska)

Sardines

Shrimp: Pink (Oregon)

Spot Prawn (BC)

Striped Bass (farmed)

Sturgeon Caviar (farmed)

Tilapia (farmed)

Trout: Rainbow (farmed)

Tuna: Albacore, Bigeye, Yellowfin (troll/pole-caught)

White Seabass



Basa/Tra (farmed)

Clams (wild-caught)

Cod: Pacific (long-line or trawl caught)

Crab: King (Alaska), Snow (U.S.), imitation Dogfish (BC) *

Lingcod

Lobster American/Maine

Mahi mahi/Dolphinfish?Dorado

Oysters (wild-caught) *

Rockfish (hook & line-caught from Alaska or BC) *

Sablefish/Black Cod (California, Oregon or Washington)

Salmon (wild-caught from California, Oregon or Washington)

Sanddabs: Pacific

Scallops: Bay, Sea

Shrimp (U.S. farmed or wild-caught)

Sole: English, Dover, Petrale, Rex

Spot Prawn (U.S.)

Squid

Sturgeon (wild-caught from Ore. or Wash.)

Swordfish (U.S.) *

Tuna: Albacore, Bigeye, Yellowfin (long-line caught) *

Tuna: canned light

Tuna: canned white/Albacore *

Chilean Seabass/ Toothfish *

Cod: Atlantic

Crab: King (imported)

Dogfish (U.S.) *

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 *

* Limit consumption to these types of seafood due to concerns about mercury or other contaminants. Visist www.oceansalive.org/eat.cfm.

The seafood recommendations in this guide are credited to the
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation.

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