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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

Smelt, Rainbow, Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch

This month we bring you new and updated recommendations for salmon and new recommendations for smelt.

Learn more about our recommendations

What's New

Seafood Watch Consumer Guide

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
Jennifer Dianto Kemmerly at Congress to address the state of fisheries.

Conservation

Speaking Up for Sustainable Fisheries

Learn about our recent testimony to Congress about the state of fisheries.

Read more on our Conservation & Science blog
Chilean salmon farm

Conservation

Driving Change in Chile

Learn how we're working with the Chilean farmed salmon industry to reduce antibiotic use.
Watch this video to learn more
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