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Our eco guide provides the latest information on sustainable seafood choices.
Enjoy the variety of seafood under our Safe list. These species are abundant and are harvested as well as managed in environmentally friendly ways. Refer to our Eat With Caution list to remind yourself that it is ok to eat some seafood on this list but not on a regular basis. Some of the seafood on the Eat With Caution list contains levels of PCBs and mercury. Our last list speaks for itself. Do not eat any seafood on our Avoid All Together list. These species are over exploited as well as harvested and farmed in ways that exert harm to the marine environment and the organisms within it.
Try to eat a variety of seafood from our safe list to maximize taste and health benefits.
Always Mix It Up!
Safe
Some Concerns: Eat with Caution
Avoid all Together
Safe
- Abalone –Farmed
- Anchovies
- Arctic Char – U.S. and Canadian
- Catfish –Farmed
- Clams – butter, geoducks, hard, littlenecks, Manila, farmed
- Crab – Dungeness, snow from Canada, stone
- Crawfish
- Dogfish
- Halibut – Alaska, Pacific
- Herring – Atlantic and Pacific
- Lobster – spiny
- Mahi Mahi (line caught)
- Mackerel – Atlantic
- Mussels – Farmed blue, New Zealand
- Octopus- Pacific
- Oysters – farmed Eastern, European, Pacific, pacific farmed
- Prawns – trap-caught, Pacific
- Rock lobster (Australian)
- Sablefish (Pacific Black Cod) – Alaska, British Columbia
- Salmon – wild from Alaska
- Sardines
- Scallops – farmed bay
- Shrimp – Northern from Newfoundland, farmed/ trap caught
- Sport prawns
- Squid - Pacific
- Striped bass – farmed
- Sturgeon (Caviar) – farmed
- Tilapia –farmed
- Trout – Farmed
- Tuna – Ahi, Yellowfin, Bigeye, Albacore – pole/troll-caught
- Uni (sea urchin)
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Some Concerns: Eat with Caution
- Clams (wild-caught)
- Cod (Pacific)
- Crab (pacific, blue, imitation, surimi, king-Alaska, snow)
- Flounder (Summer, Fluke)
- Lingcod
- Lobster (Atlantic*, American, Maine)
- Mahi Mahi* (Dolphin fish)
- Octopus ( Atlantic)
- Oysters (wild-caught)*
- Pollock
- Prawns (farmed or wild)
- Rainbow Trout (farmed)
- Salmon (wild, pacific)
- Scallops (Bay, Sea)
- Shrimp (farmed or trawl-caught)
- Sole (Pacific)
- Squid (Calamari) Atlantic
- Swordfish* (North Atlantic)
- Tuna (canned) (Ahi, Yellowfin*, Bigeye, Albacore*, skip jack* – pole/longline-caught)
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Avoid all Together
- Chilean Seabass/ Toothfish
- Cod – Atlantic*
- Crab – King (imported)
- Flounders ( Atlantic) except Summer/Fluke
- Grouper*
- Haddock – Atlantic
- Hake/surimi (fake crab meat)
- Halibut -Atlantic*
- Hoki ( Atlantic, New Zealand)
- Marlin *
- Monkfish/goosefish
- Orange Roughy*
- Pollock ( Alaska, Atlantic*)
- Prawns (imported, tiger)
- Rock cod/ bocaccio/Pacific rockfish*
- Rockfish (Pacific)
- Salmon (farmed, or Atlantic)*
- Sharks* and skate*
- Shrimp (imported farmed or trawl-caught)
- Snapper: Red
- Sturgeon (imported wild-caught)*
- Swordfish* (imported)
- Tilefish*
- Tuna: Bluefin*
- Turbot (arrowtooth flounder)
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NOTE:
*Indicates higher than normal mercury or PCB levels
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