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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

Crab, Jonah, Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch

June 2016

This month we bring you a new recommendation for blackback (winter) flounder along with updated recommendations for Atlantic rock crab, Jonah crab and striped mullet.

Learn more about our recommendations

What's New

Partners

Seafood Watch Welcomes New Partner, Sea to Table!

The seafood purveyor ensures customers have the data they need to make informed choices for purchasing sustainable seafood.

Learn more on sea2table.com

Dr. Barbara Block was honored in the Rolex Awards for Enterprise in 2012. Photo by Rolex.

Conservation & Science

Tirelessly Tracking Bluefin Tuna

Take a deeper look at the Tuna Research and Conservation Center, a partnership between the Aquarium and Stanford University.

Learn more on our Conservation & Science blog

Recommendations

Seafood Watch App Updated with New Features

We're making it easier than ever to get seafood recommendations on the go.

Learn more

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