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Seafood Watch, a program of the Montery Bay Aquarium, has long been the go-to resource for sorting out the seafood craziness. They publish annual 'Seafood Watch' pocket guides that easily fit in your wallet, with Best Choices, Good Alternatives, and Avoid categories. They publish a guide for each region of the US. Get the Central US Seafood pocket guide! And now it's even easier, if you have an internet-capable mobile device.
Their iPhone app lets you access the most up-to-date information about seafood choices on your iPhone, and includes their 'Project FishMap' which gives you information about local markets and restaurants making sustainable seafood choices! No iPhone?? Check out their mobile site at mobile.seafoodwatch.org, with info designed specifically to be viewed on a mobile device.
They have also developed their 'Super Green' list of seafood choices, which must meet all of the following criteria:
- Low levels of contaminants (below 216 parts per billion [ppb] mercury and 11 ppb PCBs)
- The daily minimum of omega-3s (at least 250 milligrams per day [mg/d])*
- Classified as a Seafood Watch "Best Choice" (green)
These are by far the best choices, especially for children & pregnant/breastfeeding women. So, what made the Super Green list in 2010??
Best of the Best:
- Albacore Tuna (troll- or pole-caught, from the U.S. or British Columbia)
- Freshwater Coho Salmon (farmed in tank systems, from the U.S.)
- Oysters (farmed)
- Pacific Sardines (wild-caught)
- Rainbow Trout (farmed)
- Salmon (wild-caught, from Alaska)
Other Healthy Choices ( low in contaminants and provide a smaller amount of omega-3s ):
- Arctic Char (farmed)
- Barramundi (farmed, from the U.S.)
- Dungeness Crab (wild-caught, from California, Oregon or Washington)
- Longfin Squid (wild-caught, from the U.S. Atlantic)
- Mussels (farmed)
More of a sushi person?? They have recommendations for sushi as well, including a pocket guide!
1 comment:
i wouldn't take everything monterary publishes at face value. this organization has a strong agenda and greatly discriminates against the north atlantic fisheries. will find you an article to back this up but as someone who grew up in new england and has watched the fisheries there get slammed with regulations even while complying for years it is disheartening to see that they are still posting the fish caught in new england as "bad." ridiculous. new england fisheries just need more money to put towards marketing the value of their product (like alaska -- millions spent on marketing!). anyway... just more food for thought!
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