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Helping people make better seafood choices for a healthy ocean

Search Seafood Recommendations

Our recommendations help you choose seafood that's fished or farmed in ways that have less impact on the environment.

Best Choices

Buy first, they're well managed and caught or farmed in ways that cause little harm to habitats or other wildlife.

Good AlternativeS

Buy, but be aware there are concerns with how they're caught or farmed.

Avoid

Don't buy, they're overfished or caught or farmed in ways that harm other marine life or the environment.

Ocean Issues

What Consumers Can Do

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What Businesses Can Do

New and Updated Recommendations

Catfish, Pangasius, Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch

July 2017

This month we bring you new recommendations for New Zealand cockle and swordfish and updated recommendations for channel catfish and southern king crab.

Learn more about our recommendations

What's New

Aquarium chef Matthew Beaudin named 2017 Seafood Champion

Chefs

Chef Matt Beaudin Named SeaWeb's 2017 Seafood Champion for Vision

This award recognizes the Aquarium's Chef Matt as an industry leader.

Learn more on seafoodchampions.org

Recommendations

2017 New Consumer Guides Now Available

Our consumer guides for July through December 2017 help you keep recommendations handy.

Get your consumer guide

Partners

Enjoy Sustainable Seafood with a Story from FreshCatch

This collective of West Coast fishermen delivers sustainable seafood directly to its customers.

Learn more on tryfreshcatch.com

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