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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

Bass, Striped, Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch

This month we bring you new recommendations for eel, scallops, squid and sturgeon and updated recommendations for bass, clams and squid. We’ve also released new and updated recommendations for species farmed in recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS).

Learn more about our recommendations

What's New

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Conservation

We Have High Standards

We've reviewed the standards that underpin our program with the help from seafood experts from around the globe.
Learn about the updates

Conservation

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

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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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