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13 July 2006

Eat Fish! →[More:]"Best & Worst Seafood Choices
Our guide can help you choose fish that are healthy for the oceans and safe to eat. (Learn about seafood and your health and fish to avoid.)

Green text indicates fish that are both high in omega-3 fatty acids and low in environmental contaminants.
Red text indicates fish that are high in mercury or PCBs (see individual fish pages for more information)."

post by: Feisty at: 15:26 | 8 comments

Thanks. Good info. Not happy though with my dearly beloved orange roughy being deemed not eco-safe more than 2x per month. Damn.

posted by getoffmylawn 13 July | 16:00

Note that in Agropyron's link below, it's stated that farmed salmon is bad, and in this one it says that canned salmon is good. Canned = farmed.
"There are five species of wild salmon from Alaska (...) all come from well-managed fisheries and are low in contaminants."
Well managed according to whom? If they come from fisheries, then they're farmed, and therefore not wild. What does "low in contaminants" mean, and according to whom? Europe has a far stricter set of guidelines saying what's good and what's bad in contaminant levels, so take all the info with a grain or two of salt, is all I'm saying.

posted by Zack_Replica 13 July | 16:21

Don't forget the sustainability issue, either.

Check out Seafood Watch.

posted by mudpuppie 13 July | 16:44

See? This is why I should read all threads before posting...I just posted the Monterey Bay Aquarium link in the Don't Eat Fish thread :)

posted by Sil 13 July | 16:56

Ooops, me too, start at the top gh!

posted by green herring 13 July | 17:01

I steamed and ate three blue crabs for dinner. ($3.99 a pound! Live! I got to choose and bag them myself!)

posted by me3dia 13 July | 22:14

Just to clarify: not all canned salmon is farmed.

Also, the term “fishery” doesn’t just refer to farms.

posted by bmarkey 13 July | 23:00

Thanks, bmarkey - I've been searching high and low for info on fisheries.

posted by Feisty 13 July | 23:41

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