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EmoCL · 04-07-2008, 09:55 PM

Monterey Bay Aquarium: Seafood Watch Program - A Consumer's Guide to Sustainable Seafood

If any of you have been to or heard of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, you'll know we have a program known as Seafood Watch--a program that helps you make informed and environmentally-friendly decisions when buying or consuming seafood. The MBA has been really stressing ocean conservation and our goal as an aquarium is to get people to appreciate and love our oceans and want to protect them.

This website I linked you to is off of the Aquarium's main website and tells you about this program. Basically, at the Aquarium hands out cards that have three lists: Best Choices, Good Alternatives, and Avoid.

On these lists are many fish that you can see and buy in stores and how they are caught. The goal here is to NOT buy fish that are listed on the Avoid list, as these fish may be caught in environmentally harmful ways, or they may be experiencing overfishing, etc. For example, shrimp trawl nets are nets that drag along the floor of the ocean and destroy many kelp and also catch more of other animals than shrimp; these animals are tossed back into the oceans dead and dying.

Here is a link to most of the fish on these lists. Green is fish you want to eat, yellow fish are also pretty good choices, and red is AVOID, as these fisheries are environmentally harmful and irresponsible.

Monterey Bay Aquarium: Seafood Watch Program - Online Seafood Watch Guides for Sustainable Seafood Choices

Also, since I am a volunteer at the Aquarium, I have many copies of these Seafood Watch guides and I can photocopy them and send them to people for you to print out and take with you when shopping for seafood. They are based off of different regions of the US, and we have an 'international' guide for those of you outside of America.

The ONLY WAY we can save the animals in our oceans is by eating environmentally-friendly seafood. Please help us save our oceans!!

Also, if any of you are ever in the vicinity of Monterey, please visit the aquariums. We have sea otters, river otters, sharks, turtles, jellies, as well as touch pools in which you can feel the animals that live in the oceans and get to know them... also, I work there every other sunday.

So, please let me know if you are interested in a Seafood Watch guide, and I can photocopy a guide corresponding to the area in which you live so you can use it to eat good seafoods. Please and thank you!! Help us support responsible fisheries and make a difference for our seas.

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