{"id":450,"date":"2009-10-29T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/?p=450"},"modified":"2009-10-29T14:02:20","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T21:02:20","slug":"seafood-choices-helpful-tools-from-edf-and-monterey-bay-aquarium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2009\/10\/29\/seafood-choices-helpful-tools-from-edf-and-monterey-bay-aquarium\/","title":{"rendered":"Seafood Choices, Helpful Tools from EDF and Monterey Bay Aquarium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-456\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2009\/10\/salmon_steak_tomatoes_lime_248x169.jpg\" alt=\"Salmon steak with tomatoes and lime\" hspace=\"5\" width=\"248\" height=\"169\" align=\"right\" \/>Last week, as part of its 25th anniversary celebration, the Monterey Bay Aquarium&#8217;s Seafood Watch program released a report entitled, &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montereybayaquarium.org\/cr\/cr_seafoodwatch\/report\/\" target=\"_blank\">Turning the Tide: The State of Seafood.&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> It outlines the challenges and opportunities facing the global seafood industry, and how consumers, businesses and policy makers in North America can make a difference in the health of our oceans.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOne piece of the report that was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/10\/19\/AR2009101902929.html, http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/greenspace\/2009\/10\/sustainable-seafood.html, http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/HEALTH\/10\/20\/healthy.fish.salmon\/index.html, http:\/\/www.seafoodnews.com\/Sub\/NewsStory.aspx?StoryId=710262&amp;TopicId=10017\" target=\"_blank\">covered extensively<\/a><\/strong>, was the creation of a &#8220;Super Green&#8221; list of seafood choices, which are both fished or farmed responsibly AND good for your health. I worked with the Aquarium over the last several months to develop and refine this list based on EDF&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/page.cfm?tagID=1541\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>extensive research<\/strong> <\/a>on the topic. Here are the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montereybayaquarium.org\/cr\/cr_seafoodwatch\/sfw_health.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">best choices<\/a><\/strong> that we identified:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Albacore Tuna (from the U.S. or British Columbia)<\/li>\n<li>Mussels (farmed)<\/li>\n<li>Oysters (farmed)<\/li>\n<li>Pacific Sardines<\/li>\n<li>Pink Shrimp (from Oregon)<\/li>\n<li>Rainbow Trout (farmed)<\/li>\n<li>Salmon (from Alaska)<\/li>\n<li>Spot Prawns (from British Columbia)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A second tier of good choices with slightly lower, but still beneficial levels of omega-3s includes Arctic char, farmed bay scallops, U.S. crawfish, Dungeness crab, U.S. longfin squid, and longline-caught Pacific cod from Alaska.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nToo often the debate around this issue is portrayed as black and white &#8211; either that all seafood is healthy and should be consumed whenever possible, or that it&#8217;s all contaminated and we should get our omega-3s from sources other than fish. Well we now know that that doesn&#8217;t have to be the case. You can still enjoy the health benefits of seafood consumption, while minimizing your exposure to contaminants and supporting responsible fisheries and aquaculture operations. Now that&#8217;s a win-win for everyone.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFor everything you could ever want to know about your favorite types of fish (including fishing\/farming practices, biological information, nutritional content, recipes and consumption advisories), visit <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/seafood\" target=\"_self\">EDF&#8217;s Seafood Selector<\/a><\/strong>. And for up-to-the-second information on all things-fish related, follow me on Twitter <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/hawaiifitz\" target=\"_blank\">@hawaiifitz<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, as part of its 25th anniversary celebration, the Monterey Bay Aquarium&#8217;s Seafood Watch program released a report entitled, &#8220;Turning the Tide: The State of Seafood.&#8221; It outlines the challenges and opportunities facing the global seafood industry, and how consumers, businesses and policy makers in North America can make a difference in the health &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1932,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[696,694,72532,695,639],"coauthors":[5175],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seafood","tag-moterey-bay-auarium","tag-omega-3","tag-seafood","tag-seafood-guides","tag-sustainable-seafood"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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