Commit to sustainable seafood for World Oceans Day

June 8, 1:48 PMSF Sustainable Food ExaminerJeri Lynn Chandler

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Fishing boats, Morro Bay, CA by Mike Baird

Today is World Oceans Day and to mark the occasion the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has released a new consumer guide to healthy and sustainable seafood.

The new guide provides a range of information to help shoppers (aka eaters) easily make healthy and sustainable choices, including 7 general tips to keep in mind when you’re shopping (like choose American fish over imported, and wild fish over farmed); how to eat the top 5 most popular fish in America in the healthiest, most sustainable way possible; and a quick list of popular seafood to eat, as well as avoid.

Morro Bay, CA by Mike Baird

If you like to stay local even with your seafood guides, visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch Program web page.

The site is full of good information, and you can download a regional Seafood Watch pocket guide.  Download yours now. Carry it with you -- starting today, World Oceans Day -- for the fish, for your health and for the oceans, which is the same as saying for the planet.

Biologists Trevor Kennedy (bottom right) and
Roxanne Kessler (top center) release smolts,
younger versions of chinook salmon, onto
holding pens with the help of boat captain
Doug Wagoner (bottom left) in Vallejo, Calif.,
Thursday, June 4, 2009.
(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

And, in recent fisheries news for the Bay Area...

Here on the West Coast our fisheries are not in the best of shape, but efforts are underway to change that.

Biologists from the Fishery Foundation of California released 550,000 smolts into the San Francisco Bay Thursday in hopes of restoring commercial and recreational fishing. Federal fisheries regulators released a wide-ranging plan Thursday to help the struggling chinook salmon, saying state and federal water projects have contributed to the decline of the fish and other endangered species in the Central Valley.

The National Marine Fisheries Service recommends a new water temperature management plan for the upper Sacramento River and Shasta Reservoir and opening dams to allow for better salmon migration, among other things, in the new report. (source: AP)