This chart provides substitutes from our "Best Choices" and "Good Alternatives" lists for all fish on the "Avoid" list of our Seafood Watch pocket guides. Try these ocean friendly seafood choices in your favorite recipe or when you dine out.
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Chilean Seabass/Patagonian Toothfish*
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Sablefish/Black Cod/Butterfish (AK, BC) |
Sablefish/Black Cod/Butterfish (CA, OR, WA) |
Cod: Atlantic
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Cod: Pacific
- hook & line-caught
- longline from AK*
- trap-caught
Pollock (AK)*
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Cod: Icelandic & Barents Sea
Cod: Pacific
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Crab: King (imported)
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Crab: Dungeness, Snow(Canada), Stone
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Crab: Blue*, Jonah, King (AK), Snow (US)
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Crayfish (imported farmed)
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Crayfish (US farmed)
Spot Prawn (BC)
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Spot Prawn (US)
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Dogfish (US)*
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Cod: Pacific
- hook & line-caught
- longline from AK*
- trap-caught
Pollock (AK)*
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Dogfish (BC)*
Cod: Pacific
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Flounders/Soles (Atlantic)
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Halibut: Pacific*
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Flounders, Soles (Pacific)
Turbot: Greenland
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Grenadier/Pacific Roughy
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Tilapia (US farmed)
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Flounders, Soles (Pacific)
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Groupers*
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Striped Bass (farmed or wild-caught*)
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Black Sea Bass
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Haddock (trawl-caught)
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Cod: Pacific
- hook & line-caught
- longline from AK*
- trap-caught
Pollock(AK)*
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Haddock (hook & line-caught) |
Hake: White
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Tilapia (US farmed)
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Hake: Silver, Red and Offshore
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Halibut: Atlantic
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Halibut: Pacific*
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Flounders, Soles (Pacific)
Turbot: Greenland
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Lobster: Spiny (Caribbean imported)
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Lobster: Spiny (US, Australia*)
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Lobster: American/Maine
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Monkfish
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Sablefish/Black Cod/Butterfish (AK, BC)
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Sablefish/Black Cod/Butterfish
(CA, OR, WA)
Mahi mahi
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Orange Roughy*
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Tilapia (US farmed)
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Flounders, Soles (Pacific)
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Pompano: Florida
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Striped Bass
(farmed or wild-caught*)
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Black Sea Bass
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Rockfish: Pacific*
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Rockfish, Black (CA, OR)
Halibut: Pacific*
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Rockfish* (hook & line caught from AK, BC)
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Salmon (farmed, including Atlantic)*
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Salmon (wild-caught from AK)*
Arctic Char (farmed)
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Salmon (wild-caught from CA, WA, OR)
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Scallops: Sea (Mid-Atlantic)
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Scallops: Sea
(diver-caught or farmed)
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Scallops: Sea
(Northeast, Canada)
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Sharks*
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Sturgeon (U.S. farmed)
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Thresher* or Mako* shark
(US West Coast)
Sturgeon
(wild-caught from OR, WA)
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Shrimp (imported farmed or imported wild-caught)
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Shrimp: Pink (OR)
Spot Prawn (BC)
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Shrimp (US farmed or US wild-caught)
Shrimp: Northern (Canada, US)
Spot Prawn (US)
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Snapper: Red* and Vermillion (US)
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Tilapia (US farmed)
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Flounders, Soles (Pacific)
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Sturgeon* & Caviar (imported wild-caught)
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Sturgeon, Caviar (US farmed)
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Sturgeon (wild-caught from OR, WA)
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Swordfish (imported)*
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Sturgeon (US farmed)
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Swordfish (US)*
Mahi mahi
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Tilefish (Southeast)*
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Striped Bass (farmed or wild-caught*)
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Tilefish (Mid-Atlantic)
Mahi mahi
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Tuna: Bluefin*
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Tuna: Albacore, Bigeye, Yellowfin (troll/pole-caught)
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Tuna: Albacore*, Bigeye*, Yellowfin* (longline-caught)
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