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Culinary Alternatives

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.

Avoid best chice Good Alternative
Chilean Seabass/Patagonian Toothfish*
Sablefish/Black Cod/Butterfish (AK, BC) Sablefish/Black Cod/Butterfish (CA, OR, WA)
Cod: Atlantic
Cod: Pacific
  • hook & line-caught
  • longline from AK*
  • trap-caught

Pollock (AK)*
Cod: Icelandic & Barents Sea
  • non-trawl-caught

Cod: Pacific
  • trawl-caught
Crab: King (imported)
Crab: Dungeness, Snow(Canada), Stone
Crab: Blue*, Jonah, King (AK), Snow (US)
Crayfish (imported farmed)
Crayfish (US farmed)

Spot Prawn (BC)
Spot Prawn (US)
Dogfish (US)*
Cod: Pacific
  • hook & line-caught
  • longline from AK*
  • trap-caught

Pollock (AK)*
Dogfish (BC)*

Cod: Pacific
  • trawl-caught
Flounders/Soles (Atlantic)
Halibut: Pacific*
Flounders, Soles (Pacific)

Turbot: Greenland
Grenadier/Pacific Roughy
Tilapia (US farmed)
Flounders, Soles (Pacific)
Groupers*
Striped Bass (farmed or wild-caught*)
Black Sea Bass
Haddock (trawl-caught)
Cod: Pacific
  • hook & line-caught
  • longline from AK*
  • trap-caught

Pollock(AK)*
Haddock (hook & line-caught)
Hake: White
Tilapia (US farmed)
Hake: Silver, Red and Offshore
Halibut: Atlantic
Halibut: Pacific*
Flounders, Soles (Pacific)

Turbot: Greenland
Lobster: Spiny (Caribbean imported)
Lobster: Spiny (US, Australia*)
Lobster: American/Maine
Monkfish
Sablefish/Black Cod/Butterfish (AK, BC)
Sablefish/Black Cod/Butterfish
(CA, OR, WA)

Mahi mahi
Orange Roughy*
Tilapia (US farmed)
Flounders, Soles (Pacific)
Pompano: Florida
Striped Bass
(farmed or wild-caught*)
Black Sea Bass
Rockfish: Pacific*
Rockfish, Black (CA, OR)

Halibut: Pacific*
Rockfish* (hook & line caught from AK, BC)
Salmon (farmed, including Atlantic)*
Salmon (wild-caught from AK)*

Arctic Char (farmed)
Salmon (wild-caught from CA, WA, OR)
Scallops: Sea (Mid-Atlantic)
Scallops: Sea
(diver-caught or farmed)
Scallops: Sea
(Northeast, Canada)
Sharks*
Sturgeon (U.S. farmed)
Thresher* or Mako* shark
(US West Coast)

Sturgeon
(wild-caught from OR, WA)
Shrimp (imported farmed or imported wild-caught)
Shrimp: Pink (OR)

Spot Prawn (BC)
Shrimp (US farmed or US wild-caught)

Shrimp: Northern (Canada, US)
Spot Prawn (US)
Snapper: Red* and Vermillion (US)
Tilapia (US farmed)
Flounders, Soles (Pacific)
Sturgeon* & Caviar (imported wild-caught)
Sturgeon, Caviar (US farmed)
Sturgeon (wild-caught from OR, WA)
Swordfish (imported)*
Sturgeon (US farmed)
Swordfish (US)*
Mahi mahi
Tilefish (Southeast)*
Striped Bass (farmed or wild-caught*)
Tilefish (Mid-Atlantic)

Mahi mahi
Tuna: Bluefin*
Tuna: Albacore, Bigeye, Yellowfin (troll/pole-caught)
Tuna: Albacore*, Bigeye*, Yellowfin* (longline-caught)


* Indicates a consumption advisory from Environmental Defense Fund due to mercury or other contaminants. For more information, visit www.oceansalive.org

* Portions of this fishery have been certified as sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council. For more information, visit www.msc.org

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