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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 Choice

Best Choices

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

Good AlternativeS

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

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

Get the Seafood Watch App

What Businesses Can Do

New and Updated Recommendations

Red sea urchin

Recommendations

This month we bring you new recommendations for eel, grouper, paddlefish, sea urchin and squid. We're also releasing updated recommendations for grouper, paddlefish, sea urchin, snapper, squid and sturgeon.

Learn more about our recommendations

What's New

Sea bass dish from Jimmy’s Famous American Tavern

Partners

Jimmy's Famous American Tavern Partners with Seafood Watch

Jimmy's serves sustainable seafood at their five southern California locations.

Learn more on j-fat.com
New Consumer Guides Now Available

Recommendations

2018 New Consumer Guides Now Available

Our consumer guides for July through December 2018 help you keep recommendations handy.

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Chef Dolan

A New Cookbook for the Modern, Sustainable Cook

In his new book, Simply Fish, Chef Matthew Dolan shares how to purchase and prepare delicious, sustainable seafood.

Preview a recipe on our blog
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