Seafood Watch

Click this link to go to the Monterey Bay Aquarium's page for Seafood Recommendation guides.

Fish and other seafood will be listed in these categories:


Best Choices: Seafood in this category is abundant, well-managed and caught or farmed in environmentally friendly ways.

Good Alternatives: These items are an option, but there are concerns with how they're caught or farmed-or with the health of their habitat due to other human impacts.

Avoid: Take a pass on these items for now. They are caught or farmed in ways that harm other marine life or the environment.

The Super Green List: A list of wild and farmed seafood that’s healthy for people and the oceans.

From the Seafood Watch site, you can download regional or nation guides for seafood choices or download applications for your mobile device.


Canadians!!  Check here!!   Sustainable Seafood.

International guides:
WWF Sustainable Seafood:  Consumer guides.

• Belgium seafood guide
  (French PDF)
• Belgium seafood guide
  (Dutch, PDF)
• Denmark seafood guide
  (Danish, PDF; Danish, website)
• Finland seafood guide
  (Finnish, PDF)
• France seafood guide
  (French, PDF)
• Germany seafood guide
  (German, PDF)
• Hong Kong seafood guide 
  (English & Chinese, PDF)
• Indonesia
  Seafood guide
• Italian seafood guide
  (Italian, PDF)
• Netherlands seafood guide
  (Dutch, PDF)
• Norway seafood guide
  (Norwegian, PDF)
• Poland seafood guide
  (Polish, PDF)
• Singapore seafood guide
• Spain seafood guide
  (Catalan, PDF and Spanish, PDF and website: Guía de consumo responsable de pescado)
• South Africa
  Sustainable seafood initiative
• Sweden seafood guide
  (Swedish, PDF)
• Switzerland seafood guide
  German online version or PDF version
  French online version or PDF version
  Italian online version or PDF version

Identity Theft Prevention

They're having a big 'shred-a-thon' downtown today to help prevent identity theft.  I guess you bring down all your super personal information and bank statements, etc and they take care of it all for you.

We don't have a shredder.  

We have gerbils.

  Would you go digging through gerbil pee soaked bank statements?  Yeah, me neither.  Plus, it's 'green.'  No electricity required.

Shredding rules and gerbil rules are almost exactly the same:

-no staples or paper clips

-no plastic or metal

-no cd's or other disks

-no ink cartridges

-no toxic materials

-no biological matter

Now, I don't want any little gerbils getting hurt here.  Please use common sense if you decide to employ your rodents as soldiers in the war against identity theft.  Inks can be toxic, especially in large quantities!  Give them a rest between jobs...

As you can see, my little guys don't eat the paper.  They just tear it apart to make a fancy mattress with the bits.

(By the way, they are not devouring each other in this picture.  They just snuggle weird.)