Bulletin Board > Cooking Responsibly - Seafood Smarts
Support healthy seafood choices for healthy oceans. Your consumer power can help the health of our oceans. Canada’s Seafood Guide provides a listing of fish by colour coded Alert Codes:
BEST CHOICE This species is currently fished/harvested sustainably and represents a best choice. Enjoy, while supporting responsible fishing and costal livelihoods. View ListCatfish (US) farmed, Caviar/Sturgeon farmed, Calms Farmed, Cod: Pacific, Crab: Dungeness, Haddock, Hake: Pacific, Herring: Atlantic, Pacific, Imitation crab: Pollock, Lobster: Atlantic Canada, Lobster: Rock, Spiny (Aus., US, Western Baja) Mussels farmed, Oysters farmed, Sablefish BC, Sardine: Brisling, Sprats (US) Shrimp/Prawn: Sidestripe, Spot (BC) trap-caught, Swordfish (Atl. Canada), Tilapia (US) farmed, trout: Rainbow, land-based farmed, Tuna troll-caught.
SOME CONCERNS Seafood that should be consumed infrequently, or when a green choice is not available. There are conservation concerns with the current populations or practices in this fishery. View ListCatfish/Tra/Basa, Clams: Atlantic soft shell, Geoduck (US Pac.) wild, Cod: Pacific (Canada, US), Crab: King, Snow (Canada, US) Haddock (US) Halibut, Atlantic, Pacific (Canada), Lingcod, Lobster ( US Atl), Mahi mahi, Dolphinfish, Dorado, Mussels (wild), Octopus (US) Oysters (wild) Sablefish, **Salmon: Pacific (wild), Scallops (NE Atl.US) Shark (US Pac.), Shrimp (Atl., Gulf of Mexico), Sole (Pac.), Squid: Jumbo, Humboldt, Shorfin, Summer (Int’l), Swordfish (US Atl.), Tuna (US).
** Check seasonal recommendations for salmon at seachoice.org
AVOID Do not purchase these fish for now. They come from sources that have a combination of problems – habitat damage, discard of unwanted species, poor management, low populations, can be easily harmed by fishing or may be listed by governments as Endangered. View ListCaviar/Sturgeon (Int’l), Chilean Seabass, Clams (Atl.), Cod: Atlantic, Crab: King (Russia) Flounder/Sole (US Atl.) Arrowtooth (Canada), Grenadier, Haddock, Halibut: Atlantic, Lobster: Spiny, Monkfish, Orange roughy, Rockfish/Snapper (Trawl), Salmon: Atlantic, Chinook farmed, Sacllops: Sea (Canada, Mid-Atl.US), Shark (Atl., Int’l), Shrimp/Prawn: Tiger, White (Int’l), Swordfish (Canada, Med., SE Atl.,), Tilapia (China, Taiwan) farmed, Tuna (Pac. Int’l), Tuna: Bluefin
For further information on environmentally safe seafood contact http://www.seachoice.org or http://www.sierraclub.ca/bc/programs/marine/seafoodguilde
