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sustainable/ethical seafood
Anyone knowledgable in this area? I know there are certain fish that are definite no-no's. Farmed salmon(and I won't eat "wild" salmon either. up to 56% of labled wild salmon is actually farmed), tuna, sea bass, monkfish, cod (I think?) ...............
what else?
I want to add in more fish to my diet, but admittedly am not up to par on this subject. What's ok to eat?
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Re: sustainable/ethical seafood
Monterey Bay Aquarium is a great resource in this area, check out http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/seafoodwatch.aspx
They have pocket guides you can download for your area, and they have an iPhone ap.
Here's the Monterey Bay Aquarium link to its Seafood Guides by region:
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/cr_seafoodwatch/download.aspx
The small pocket guides have a "best", "caution", and "avoid" categories. The guide of course isn't large enough to provide explanation of why you should avoid certain fish, but the aquarium's website has a very easy search function for that. The fish that really gets me is the orange roughy. Please don't eat orange roughy! A mature (like what you'd see at the seafood counter) orange roughy is 100-150 years old, as they are bottom-dwelling fish. With such a long lifespan and the volume that we're consuming them, the orange roughy will be extinct very quickly. They also have high levels of mercury, because it bioaccumulates over their long lifespan.
I pretty much eat salmon and shrimp. I only buy salmon at PCC, a local co-op that's committed to sustainable fish and foods, so I am comfortable believing its wild. Plus, I live in Seattle... I don't think they try to pass off much mushy farmed salmon around here as wild. And then otherwise I buy local sustainable shrimp.
That's not that helpful! lol
I want to learn about scallops. I like scallops, but I'm not sure what I need to look for.
do you have any local fish farms? This is a really cool place that just opened that I can't wait to check out for fish!
http://bayviewcompass.com/archives/532
Oh yes, mollusks! Tasty tasty mollusks.. I eat a lot of local mussels as well. And dungeness crab (not a mollusk, just not previously on my list!).
Usually fish farming is a big environmental and sustainable no-no. I checked out the page you linked, and the idea of city, indoor aquaculture is... interesting... but I'm still sketchy on the fish themselves (farmed fish tends to be not so great) and how they would label differently. I would never eat regular farmed fish.