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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

What Businesses Can Do

New and Updated Recommendations

Mackerel, Atlantic, Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch

This month we bring you new and updated recommendations for mackerel.

Learn more about our recommendations

What's New

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The Importance of Small Businesses to Sustainable Seafood

We've made some changes to how we work with small businesses to advance the sustainable seafood movement.
Learn how you can get involved
Seafood Watch Consumer Guide

Recommendations

New Consumer Guides Now Available

Our classic, pocket-sized guides have been updated with our latest recommendations for January through June 2020 and are now available!
Get your consumer guide
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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
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