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

International Wildlife Museum in Tucson

Hooray stuffed and mounted dead things!

We just got back from the International Wildlife Museum in Tucson, as mentioned in the title, and it was even better than I remembered it as a child.  I was only about eight or nine years old when we went, but twenty some years later I wanted to go again.

Mostly, I just remembered "Goat Mountain"...

There's also a very horrifying room filled with heads.  Hundreds of heads.

(Note broken tail on the lioness in foreground.  At least she hasn't just been tossed away.  I think she's out in front for the kids to pet.)

I just can't resist these places.

Here's some more pictures!!

Demon Deer!!!! ( or elk,  I wasn't paying attention.)

Birds of Paradise.

It's only $7 per adult!  There are also many beautiful insect displays with mounted butterflies, moths, beetles and stick bugs.

So, if for some reason you ever end up in Tucson, you have to go.  That's an order.

Phoenix finally wins.

http://www.themim.org/


The World's First Global Musical Instrument Museum.

We were there for 2 hours, and only got through parts of Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. My back started hurting from being on my feet for so long because it's HUGE.

They have audio headsets that sync up to the displays as you get near them. All you have to do is adjust the volume if you need to. I now know that I enjoy the music of Madagascar.

I met some people at work who said the spent the whole day there. Started at one area, went down and had lunch in the cafe midday, then headed back up for the rest of the world.

Gotta look into a membership because it's awesome and they're not even done with it yet!!