Seafood sustainability: How does your supermarket stack up?

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  Posted by leilaheather Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:53am PST

  Thanks for your informative post. In making choices about which fish to buy, I'd encourage buyers to particularly avoid bluefin tuna. Because it is delicious and in high demand, especially for sushi, this species is under intense pressure from overfishing and is on the brink of collapse. The organization that is supposed to sustainably manage the bluefin tuna stocks, ICCAT, has recently set fishing rules that will not do enough to protect the tuna from collapse. You can learn more about bluefin tuna from this recent post to my NRDC Switchboard Blog: http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/lmonroe/the_tale_of_tuna_too_few_of_th.html

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  Posted by STAN Sat Jan 3, 2009 5:00am PST

  What is meant by Red List Seafood? Where can I find that list? Please state the preferred, acceptable, marginal and unacceptable sources for fish that you used in rating whether a store had good sources or not. I've read that fish farms are not a good source because of high mercury and other chemicals found in fish that have been farmed. How do you rate fish farms as a source?

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  Posted by spider Sat Jan 3, 2009 10:33am PST

  In reference to the post above, the Red List is probably from the Monterey Bay website. It lists seafood by green, yellow, red, and the ratings are based on both sustainability and contamination. I actually came on here to complain about Harris Teeter; just bought some fresh cod labeled USA which Monterey Bay rates "green" and when it rang up it said it was Icelandic. I asked the manager which it was, it was Icelandic. (Icelandic cod is "red list")

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  Posted by Gigi Sat Jan 3, 2009 8:10pm PST

  what about also the stores that hispanics go to like fiesta, or ranchero grocery stores, they are a bit popular is ther meat fresh and seafood. how can you tell.

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