From the Monterey Bay Aquarium, A Consumer’s Guide to Sustainable Seafood — complete with regional seafood guides you can print and take along to the store.
Our Seafood Watch regional guides contain the latest information on sustainable seafood choices available in different regions of the U.S. Our “Best Choices” are abundant, well managed and fished or farmed in environmentally friendly ways. Seafood to “Avoid” are overfished and/or fished or farmed in ways that harm other marine life or the environment.
(Always avoid the fish on Trans American Airlines.)
Oceans Alive also has a guide to Best & Worst Seafood Choices. “Our guide can help you choose fish that are healthy for the oceans and safe to eat.”
“(Always avoid the fish on Trans American Airlines.)”
Over Macho Grande?
i put both sites to the louisiana test, with interesting results. one site sez go ahead and eat all the crawfish you like no matter they’re from –bon appetit!– but the monterey aquarium raises surprising ecological concerns about farming chinese crawfish and suggests avoiding them for reasons not usually mentioned in louisiana, where choosing acadiana crawfish is something of a patriotic duty.
also looked into other species, and learned –with a sort of genteel don’t-cut-down-that-tree horror– that at some point i may have eaten an orange roughie that was a hatchling before my father was born.