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Good Alternatives
An option, but there are concerns with how they’re caught or farmed, or concerns with the health of their habitat due to other human impacts:
- Caviar Sturgeon (US farmed)
- Clams (wild)
- Cod pacific (US trawled)
- Crab Blue, King (US) Snow
- Flounders Soles (Pacific)
- Herring Atlantic
- Lobster American Maine
- Mahi Mahi.Dolphinfish (US)
- Oysters (wild)
- Pollock (Alaska Wild)
- Sablefish/Black Cod (California, Oregon, or Washington)
- Scallops Sea (wild)
- Shrimp (US Canada)
- Squid
- Swai Basa (farmed)
- Swordfish (US)
- Tilapia (central America, farmed)
- Tuna Bigeye, Yellowfish (troll/pole)
- Tuna Canned Skipjack and Albacore
Avoid
These items are caught or farmed in ways that harm other marine life or the environment:
- Caviar Sturgeon (farmed wild)
- Chilean Seabass/Toothfish
- Cobia (imported farmed)
- Cod Atlantic, imported Pacific
- Flounders Halibut, Soles (Atlantic)
- Grouper
- Lobster Spiny (Caribbean)
- Mahi Mahi/Dolphinfish (imported)
- Marlin Blue/Striped
- Monkfish
- Orange roughy
- Salmon (farmed, including Atlantic)
- Sharks/Skates
- Shrimp (imported)
- Snapper Red
- Swordfish (imported)
- Tilapia (Asia farmed)
- Tuna Albacore, Bigeye, Yellowfin (longline)
- Tuna Bluefin
- Yellowtail (Imported farmed)