Seafood Guide

These are your best choices as the fish/shellfish are abundant, well-managed, and fished or farmed in environmentally friendly ways.

• Abalone (farmed)
• Arctic Char (farmed)
• Barramundi (US farmed)
• Catfish (US farmed)
• Caviar (farmed)
• Clams (farmed or wild-caught)
• Cod (Alaska longline and farmed)
• Crab: Dungeness
• Halibut (Alaska longline/Pacific)
• Lake Whitefish (trap net)
• Lobster: Spiny (US)
• Mussels and Oysters (farmed)
• Pollock (Alaska wild)
• Sablefish/Black Cod/Butterfish (Alaska+BC)
• Salmon (Alaska wild)
• Sardines/Atlantic Herring Scallops: Bay (farmed)
• Shrimp: Pink (Oregon wild)
• Striped Bass (farmed)
• Sturgeon (farmed)
• Tilapia (US farmed)
• Trout: Rainbow (farmed)
• Tuna: Bigeye
• Tuna: Skipjack and Yellow fin

GOOD ALTERNATIVES

These are an option when the best choices aren't available. There are, however, some concerns with how they are caught or farmed, or with the health of their habitat.

• Cod (Pacific)
• King Crab (US only)
• Snow Crab (US)
• Imitation/Surimi
• Flounders (Pacific)
• Lobster: US/Maine
• Mahi mahi/Dolphinfish (US)
• Rainbow Smelt Round Whitefish Salmon (CA, OR, WA wild)
• Scallops: Sea or Bay
• Shrimp (US farmed or wild)
• Snapper: Gray, Lane, Mutton, Yellowtail (US)
• Sole (Pacific)
• Tuna: canned light

TO AVOID OR LIMIT

• Caviar (wild caught)
• Chilean sea bass
• Cod (Atlantic)
• Flounder, except Atlantic
• Grouper*
• Halibut (Atlantic)
• Monkfish
• Orange Roughy
• Rockfish (Pacific)
• Salmon (farmed, including Atlantic)
• Shark*
• Shrimp (imported farmed or troll caught)
• Snapper (red)
• Sole (Atlantic)
• Sturgeon (imported, wild caught)
• Swordfish (imported)*
• Tuna: Albacore / white*
• Tuna, Bluefin*

Contaminant information provided by Environmental Defense. Visit Oceans Alive