Cooking for Solutions supports the goals of the Seafood Watch program at the Monterey Bay Aquarium—helping consumers, chefs, restaurants and businesses make choices for healthy oceans. Our recommendations indicate which seafood items are "Best Choices," "Good Alternatives," and which ones you should "Avoid." Get our recommendations online, in our printed pocket guides, or on your mobile devices.
Pocket Guides
Carry the printed pocket guide that's right for your region to help you choose seafood wherever you live or travel.
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Pocket Guides updated July 2009
About Seafood Watch
The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program helps consumers and businesses make choices for healthy oceans. Our recommendations are science-based, peer reviewed, and use ecosystem-based criteria. Since 1999, we've distributed tens of millions of pocket guides, our iPhone application has been downloaded more than 70,000 times, and we have close to 200 partners across North America, including the two largest food service companies in the U.S.
Our Seafood Ratings
Best Choices: Seafood in this category is abundant, well-managed and caught or farmed in environmentally friendly ways.
Good Alternatives: These items are an option, but there are concerns with how they're caught or farmed-or with the health of their habitat due to other human impacts.
Avoid: Take a pass on these items for now. They are caught or farmed in ways that harm other marine life or the environment.
The Super Green List: A list of wild and farmed seafood that's healthy for people and the oceans.
How do you make your recommendations?