There are several online and printable guides to safer and sustainable seafood, including the Smart Seafood Guide, the Seafood Watch Pocket Guide from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and the Wallet Guide to Ocean-Friendly Sushi from the Blue Ocean Institute. But this infographic by David McCandless & Derek Guo provides a visual guide to all the latest consensus and date from Marine Conservation Society, Greenpeace and the SeaFood Watch— and it's also downloadable as a pocket guide!
Also, download a hi-res print here ($2.50) and download the pocket guide here (free). All profits go to the Marine Conservation Society.


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I hate to be a stickler... but it's "Monterey". Great resource and an even more beautiful museum!
Ack! Typing too fast. Thanks, Lea B!
Farmed tilapia from any random country (China) is a "yes" for safety, really?? what, exactly, are these people's definition of "safe" and "sustainable?" I mean really?
I thought "safe" seafood meant the kind that wouldn't contain nasty unseen things like chemicals, high levels of mercury or hormones, diseases, etc...
I suppose "sustainable" could mean eating a bunch of them isn't detrimental to the health of the species, but it could also mean how catching them to feed demand affects the environment. If you're talking about the second I'd have to go ahead and say any seafood imported to the U.S. to feed U.S. demand is unsustainable, especially tilapia.
Just a web comment - it seems like only half of the phrase "View the infographic here" is linked. Only "-phic here." is actually linking - the rest doesn't seem to be. Not a biggie, but I'm a stickler for web usability =)
I don't know where they get their information from, but farmed fish of any kind are severely harmful to the ocean. Read the NY Times article for more. And by the way, tilapia has almost no omega 3s or healthy fat to speak of.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/science/earth/02tilapia.html
@downtowncook, I'm not exactly sure what you're referring to? It seems to be that all of the "View the Infographic Here" is linked. What browser are you using? I'm not even sure how to fix it!
@jess13
If you would have taken the time to view the full infographic you would see that under No, there is Talapia (from china).
Ditto, username26. Hooray for chicken!