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Now more than ever, when it comes to seafood, your choices make a difference. To help, we update our Seafood Watch recommendations every six months. For July 2010 our changes include new recommendations for two of the most popular seafood items consumed in the U.S.—canned tuna and wild Pacific salmon.
Each month we bring you a delicious (and sustainable) seafood recipe created by one of the country's best chefs. This month's recipe for Sicilian Sweet-and-Sour Seared Tuna is from Lynne Rossetto Kasper, award-winning cookbook author and host of the popular program, The Splendid Table ®), which can be heard on more than 200 public radio stations nationwide.
The news from the Gulf of Mexico remains grim. What does it all mean for the health of our oceans? We've got information and links about this unfolding catastrophe, and news from the Aquarium's Executive Director, Julie Packard.
The Aquarium's Seafood Watch program earned Treehugger.com's "Best of Green: Science and Technology" award for our iPhone app. "Quickly searchable information at your fingertips that helps save species...what's not to like about that?" says Treehugger. Thanks to everyone who voted!
Target Eliminates Farmed Salmon from All Stores
Target has eliminated all farmed salmon from its stores, citing guidance from the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program. This is a huge development from a major retailer, and it means that no farmed salmon will be sold as fresh, frozen or shelf items in any of its more than 1,700 popular stores. Most salmon are farmed in open net pens, and waste from these farms is released directly into the oceans.
We’ve just released a benchmark research report, The State of Seafood report. It takes a comprehensive look at how new commitments by consumers, major buyers and the fishing community are improving global prospects for securing a sustainable seafood supply and protecting ocean ecosystems.
How can you eat more seafood for your health and protect ocean ecosystems? We’ve got the answer. Working with the Environmental Defense Fund and scientists from the Harvard School of Public Health, we’ve created a "Super Green" list of wild and farmed seafood that’s good for people and the oceans.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium and Santa Monica Seafood, the largest seafood distributor in the southwest, have entered into a five-year partnership under which Santa Monica Seafood will shift its purchases toward sustainable sources. The Aquarium's Seafood Watch program will provide scientific research, support chef outreach efforts, and help Santa Monica Seafood find sustainable suppliers.
A landmark sustainable seafood bill sponsored by the Monterey Bay Aquarium has just been signed into law by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Under AB 1217, California fisheries can get financial assistance to meet international certification standards for seafood sustainability and market their products as sustainably caught in California.
Our updated app uses your phone’s GPS to automatically determine the right seafood guide for your location, and lets you sort seafood by rank. If you've got another kind of mobile device, just log on to mobile.seafoodwatch.org and you'll be automatically directed to our online pocket guides, just in time to order your next seafood meal.
Think your sustainable seafood smarts run deep? Put your knowledge to the test with our Seafood Smarts Quiz. Find out if you're a Bluefish Brainiac or merely a Floundering Flounder. Take the quiz and then share it with all your friends!
Get Connected to Seafood Watch
The Monterey Bay Aquarium has long been active on Facebook and Twitter—now Seafood Watch has its own pages. Get the latest information about sustainable seafood, learn about issues affecting our oceans and interact with other ocean lovers and Aquarium staff. Visit Seafood Watch on Twitter
If you missed our recent World Ocean Day webcast with Food Network star Alton Brown and Aquarium founder and Executive Director Julie Packard, you can still enjoy it online. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from two prominent voices for healthier and more sustainable oceans!
Three Seafood Watch partners have teamed up to expand awareness about ocean-friendly seafood in the San Francisco Bay Area. The San Francisco Seafood Watch Alliance, composed of the Aquarium of the Bay, the California Academy of Sciences and the San Francisco Zoo, will work to educate consumers, restaurants and the seafood industry on the importance of choosing seafood that is caught or farmed in ways that support healthy oceans.
Now Google Earth lets you dive into the ocean, explore marine habitats and make ocean-friendly seafood choices. The Monterey Bay Aquarium, the Aquarium's Seafood Watch program and scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute contributed to the Ocean in Google Earth, released February 2. Launch the application and use the side navigation to go to: Layers> Ocean> State of the Ocean, and ensure the box marked "Seafood Watch" is checked.
Now sushi lovers have a way to make seafood choices that please the palate and safeguard the world's ocean wildlife. The Seafood Watch sushi pocket guide ranks popular sushi selections based on whether they are prepared using seafood that's caught or farmed in ways that harm the ocean.
Seafood Watch Guides at 2009 Sundance Film Festival
Ocean issues are prominent at this month’s Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah—and Seafood Watch is involved. Sundance is the premier showcase for independent filmmakers worldwide and this year two films bring the Seafood Watch message to viewers: The End of the Line, which chronicles the drastic effects of overfishing; and The Cove, which exposes a clandestine operation in Japan that captures and sells dolphins.
Bon Appétit Magazine has named Monterey Bay Aquarium as its “Tastemaker of the Year” for 2008, recognizing our Seafood Watch program for its influential role in transforming seafood buying habits across the United States.
Get the inside scoop on what seafood to savor and what fish to forgo in this archived edition video webcast. Portola Cafe Executive Chef Dory Ford and Seafood Watch manager Sheila Bowman share tips for choosing and preparing sustainable seafood dishes.
ARAMARK, one of the world’s leading professional facilities management and food service companies, is partnering with Seafood Watch to shift its U.S. seafood purchases toward sustainable sources over the next decade. It’s another big step toward creating market demand that will change fisheries and fish-farming practices around the world.
Common Vision for Sustainable Seafood
The Conservation Alliance for Seafood Solutions—fourteen conservation organizations across North America, including the Monterey Bay Aquarium—announced an agreement in May on the "Common Vision for Environmentally Sustainable Seafood," highlighting a clear path for achieving sustainability in the seafood industry.
For more information about the Conservation Alliance for Seafood Solutions and the Common Vision, visit www.solutionsforseafood.org.
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The Aquarium has long been active on Twitter—now Seafood Watch has its own page!
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