Conservation - Seafood Watch

Make Ocean-friendly Seafood Choices

Every year, humans consume over 80 million tons of seafood. This does not even include the fish animals in the wild need to eat. The take home message: we eat A LOT of fish!

It is easy to do your part to make more informed and sustainable choices in seafood with the help of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch Pocket Guide

The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch Pocket Guide is designed to fit easily in your wallet or purse and outlines the best choices in seafood.  Their website also allows you to easily access the most updated Pocket Guide to download to your personal devices.

Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California research to find the healthiest and most sustainable choices of seafood and compile the information into these handy pocket guides. There are 3 categories: Best Choices, Good Alternatives and Avoid. Seafood Watch scientists look at fishing and farming practices, natural populations and health concerns to determine where each kind of fish will fit into the categories of the pocket guide.

These guides are a ready-resource to help you make informed choices the next time you purchase seafood at a store or restaurant. Just pull the guide out of your pocket or use the Seafood Watch website and determine if the fish you want to purchase is a sustainable choice.

You may have to ask questions about where the fish comes from or the way the fish was caught, but its all about awareness. The more people who are talking about sustainable seafood, the healthier our world’s oceans will become!