Sustainable Seafood Guide

Better Choices
Anchovies
Arctic Char
Bluefish
Catfish (farmed)
Clams
Crab: Blue, Dungeness, King
Crawfish
Dogfish
Hake
Halibut (Pacific)
Herring (Atlantic)
Mackerel: Atlantic, Spanish
Mussels (Black, Green-lipped)
Octopus (Pacific)
Oysters (farmed)
Pacific Black Cod (sablefish)
Pacific Cod (pot or jig caught)
Pollack (Alaska)
Prawns (trap-caught, Pacific)
Rock Lobster (Australian)
Salmon (Wild Alaskan)
Sardines (Pacific)
Scallops (Bay - farmed)
Shrimp (US farmed)
Squid (Pacific)
Striped Bass (hybrid)
Sturgeon (farmed)
Tilapia (farmed)
Tuna: Pacific Albacore
Uni (sea urchin)

Moderate Risk
Flounder: "Summer Flounder" Fluke
Lingcod
Lobster (Atlantic)
Mahi Mahi or Dorado
Octopus (Atlantic)
Prawns (US farmed or wild)
Rainbow Trout (farmed)
Salmon (wild from WA, OR, BC Canada)
Scallops (Sea, Bay wild)
Shrimp (domestic, trawl-caught)
Snow Crab
Sole (Pacific)
Squid (Atlantic)
Swordfish (Pacific)
Tuna: Yellowfin or skipjack
                Best to Avoid
                Alaska King Crab
                Atlantic Cod   
                Caviar (wild sturgeon)
                Grouper
                Haddock (Atlantic)
                Halibut (Atlantic)
                Hoki (Atlantic, New Zealand)   
                Monkfish
                Orange Roughy
                Pacific Rockfish (Rock Cod)   
                Pollack (Atlantic)
                Prawns (imported, tiger)   
                Red Snapper
                Salmon (farmed worldwide)
                Scrod
                Seabass: Chilean
                Shark: all species
                Skate
                Sturgeon (wild)
                Swordfish (Atlantic)
                Tuna: Bluefin
                Turbot
                Yellowtail Flounder
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