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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

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What Businesses Can Do

New and Updated Recommendations

Crab, Stone, Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch

This month we bring you new recommendations for carp, flounder and lobster and updated recommendations for crab, goosefish, lobster and toothfish.

Learn more about our recommendations

What's New

National Seafood Month Challenge hosted by Seafood Watch

Conservation

Join us for National Seafood Month!

Celebrate with us by joining our social media photo contest.
Check out the photo challenge

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.

Helping people make better seafood choices for a healthy ocean

Search Seafood Recommendations

Best Choices

Good AlternativeS

Avoid

Ocean Issues

What Consumers Can Do

What Businesses Can Do

New and Updated Recommendations

What's New

Conservation

Join us for National Seafood Month!

Recommendations

New Consumer Guides Now Available

Conservation

Speaking Up for Sustainable Fisheries