Eat Fish; Save the Planet

I personally don't eat much seafood at all. I like calamari and the occasional tuna salad, but in general I avoid almost all fish. This is mostly because I just don't like the taste (sorry, everyone - it's just a personal thing). However, I felt justified as I learned more and more about the terrible environmental futures most fish species are facing.

Overfishing, unsustainable yields, better technology, and a growing population in the Western world craving "exotic" foods like shrimp and chilean sea bass have caused potentially irreconcilable damage to much of the world's fish stocks.

Farmed fish are no better. They are less nutritious and have caused widespread debate about their effects on the environment. (Yes, even salmon.)

So, my fish-o-phile friends ask me, what can we eat? They aren't about to give up their hydrodynamic dinners for the sake of the environment, and why should they if there is an alternative?


This is for you (you know who you are):

Printable, wallet-sized good and bad fish lists HERE. Print it out, fold it according to the directions, and keep it in your wallet for those grocery store and fishmonger runs.

HERE is another list online. Not so printable, but easy to read and each fish is linkable.

For even more in-depth lists, check out these linkable lists of fish to EAT and fish to AVOID.

Ok, guys - here you go! More about fish than you ever wanted to know!
Enjoy!