Having a sushi-making party? Blue Ocean Institute, the folks who bring you one of the most useful and frequently updated wallet seafood guides, now has a pocket guide to ocean-friendly sushi that you can carry in your wallet and peek at while you decide on your sushi order or stand confused in front of your fish monger.
Of course, you can still get an instant answer via text message by texting FISH and the species name to 30644. Cell phone and PDA users can visit www.fishphone.org to download a cell phone-friendly seafood guide.
As of this writing, the fish to stay away from are Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (Kuro Maguro/Hon Maguro), Farmed Salmon (Sake), farmed Salmon roe (Ikura), Shrimp, imported farmed and wild caught (Ebi), Japanese farmed Yellowtail (Hamachi), Red Snapper (Tai), and Freshwater Eel (Unagi).
• Download a copy of the guide to Ocean Friendly Sushi here
So avoid all the tasty things. =(
view confusednazgul's profile
Do you know why some species listed here are farmed varieties? I'm confused as to how they aren't ocean friendly when they're not wild.
Like how oryx is endangered in the wild, but you can still go to hunter's leases and hunt the animal because they're effectively "farmed."
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The problem with farmed fish is that the practice is not well regulated in some parts
Many fish farmers give their fish growth hormones and overloads of antibiotics. Because the fish are kept in floating enclosures, they can spread disease and parasites to wild fish, they are at higher risk for disease and parasites because they are packed into enclosures instead of allowed to swim free.
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