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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

What Businesses Can Do

New and Updated Recommendations

Lobster, California Spiny, Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch

This month we bring you updated recommendations for lobster.

Lobster

Learn more about our recommendations

What's New

Seafood Watch scientists visiting an aquaculture farm

Conservation

Tiny Crustacean, Big Transformation

Learn how we're working to make the global shrimp supply chain more environmentally sustainable.
Read about our work in Southeast Asia

Collage of Seafood Watch 3rd annual National Seafood Month Photo Challenge grand prize winners

Conservation

Celebrating National Seafood Month

We're sharing our favorite plates from this year's photo contest.
See the winning entries

Recommendations

New Consumer Guides Now Available

Our classic, pocket-sized guides have been updated with our latest recommendations for July through December 2019 and are now available! Get your consumer guide

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