From Seafood Choices: Updated May 10 2001

Albacore tuna

NAS: Caution, recommends troll- and pole-caught

Blue crab

NAS Caution Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab

Caviar

Caviar Emptor: AVOID

Patagonian Toothfish (Chilean Sea Bass)

NAS Avoid, MBA Avoid, ED Avoid

Flounder

NAS  Avoid Atlantic and Pacific, NRDC Avoid Winter flounder

Halibut

NAS  Avoid Atlantic
MBA Caution Pacific Halibut

American Lobster

NAS Caution

Mussels

NAS Caution

Orange Roughy

NAS Avoid , MBA Avoid

ED Avoid

Red Snapper

NAS Avoid, NRDC Avoid, ED Avoid

Salmon, Atlantic

NAS Avoid, ED Avoid, MBA Avoid

Salmon, Pacific

NAS Avoid, NRDC Avoid, MBA Avoid Oregon/Washington, Recommend Calif.

Salmon, Farmed

NAS Avoid, ED Avoid

MBA Avoid

Shark

NAS Avoid, ED Avoid

MBA Avoid, NRDC Avoid

Squid

NAS Caution, MBA Recommends

Sturgeon

NRDC Avoid

Swordfish

NAS Avoid, ED Avoid

MBA Avoid, NRDC Avoid

Tilefish

NAS Caution

 

 

NAS: National Audobon Society

MBA: Monterey Bay Aquarium

NRDC: Natural Resource Defense Council

ED: Environmental Defense