When Monterey Bay Aquarium speaks, fish listen

Monterey Bay’s internationally-recognized Seafood WATCH program is a widely recognized standard in seafood sustainability.

“This is extremely exciting. It's not an experimental science project. It is mature to the point where there is real potential to scale it up.”

Geoffrey Shester
Senior Science Manager, Seafood WATCH

With the goal of keeping oceans healthy by helping consumers and businesses make good choices about the seafood they buy, Seafood Watch publishes a guide that ranks the environmental effects of various types of seafood using color-coded categories based on “Best Choice” (green), “Good Alternatives” (yellow) and “Avoid” (red).

Seafood Watch’s “Super Green” list indicates “Best Choice” seafood that is not only good for the environment, but better for people due to low levels of contaminants and high levels of omega-3 fatty acids. Eco-farmed Sweetspring and wild-caught Alaska are the only salmon listed as Super Green. No other salmon is considered sustainable by Seafood Watch. (Wild-caught Washington salmon is classified as a “Good Alternative.”)

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