Back last December, I posted about the Environmental Defense’s list of good fish choices, vs. bad fish choices.
I received a nice e-mail from Leslie Valentine from Environment Defense, letting me know that the list has been updated. I’ll give the list below, but I invite you to take a look at their new site Oceans Alive to get the full picture on why one should be aware of the seafood choices that we make.
Good:
- Abalone – U.S. farmed
- Anchovies
- Arctic char – U.S. and Canadian farmed
- Catfish – U.S. farmed
- Caviar – farmed paddlefish and sturgeon eggs
- Clams – butter, geoducks, hard, littlenecks, Manila
- Crab – Dungeness, snow from Canada, stone
- Crawfish – U.S.
- Halibut – from Alaska
- Herring – Atlantic sea herring
- Mackerel – Atlantic, Spanish
- Mahimahi/dolphinfish – U.S., from the Atlantic
- Mussels – farmed blue, New Zealand green
- Oysters – farmed Eastern, European, Pacific
- Sablefish/black cod – from Alaska
- Salmon – wild from Alaska: chinook, chum, coho, pink, sockeye
- Sardines
- Scallops – farmed bay
- Shrimp – Northern from Newfoundland, U.S. farmed
- Spot prawns
- Striped bass/Atlantic rockfish – farmed and wild
- Sturgeon – farmed
- Tilapia – U.S
Bad
- Caviar – wild sturgeon and paddlefish eggs
- Chilean seabass/toothfish
- Cod – Atlantic
- Grouper
- Halibut – Atlantic
- Marlin
- Monkfish/goosefish
- Orange roughy
- Rockfish – Pacific (rock cod/boccacio)
- Salmon – farmed or Atlantic
- Shark
- Shrimp/prawns – imported
- Skate
- Snapper
- Sturgeon – wild
- Swordfish – imported
- Tilefish
- Tuna – bluefin
