What's New

SHEBA® Entrées Are a Purr-fect Fit for Seafood Watch

Cat lovers rejoice—you can now make sustainable choices for your pet! SHEBA® Entrées for Cats by Mars Petcare U.S. will follow our Seafood Watch recommendations, using only farmed or wild-caught fish from environmentally responsible sources. Five seafood varieties are available now, and all SHEBA fish recipes will follow the Seafood Watch program by the end of 2013.
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Seafood Watch and Hess Select Wines Make a Delicious Pairing!

Seafood Watch is proud to partner with Hess Select Wines, which uses sustainable practices in its growing and winemaking processes. The next time you’re searching for the perfect varietal to complement your sustainable seafood meal, try Hess Select Wines and join us in making smart choices for our earth and oceans.
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Cooking for Solutions Tickets on Sale Now

May 17–19, 2013

Enjoy three days of remarkable culinary experiences with some of the finest chefs in the Americas. From our fabulous Friday Gala to small-group Food & Wine Adventures and an exciting Street Food Extravaganza, you'll have a weekend of fun opportunities to meet great chefs, savor fine food and wine and discover ways to save the oceans—one meal at a time.

Seafood Watch Welcomes Expert Input

If you're an expert in the field, government or academia, we want to hear from you! We work hard to assess the sustainability of fisheries and fish farms, and we want your help to ensure our science stays accurate and up-to-date. We invite you to contribute your verifiable data to an existing or in-progress Seafood Watch assessment.
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Seafood Watch Convenes 15-Member Science Advisory Board

To strengthen the scientific rigor of its program and increase its responsiveness to evolving seafood issues, Seafood Watch has convened an independent panel of fishery and aquaculture experts to provide objective, impartial advice to its research team.
Meet the Board

New and Updated Seafood Watch Recommendations

Following are our latest recommendations, released March 11, 2013:

Updated: Monkfish (U.S. Atlantic)

Updated: U.S. Flatfish, including American plaice, Atlantic halibut, summer flounder, windowpane flounder, witch flounder and yellowtail flounder

Updated: Atlantic clams (Atlantic surf clams, hard clams, ocean quahog and softshell clams)

Updated: Tilapia (China, Ecuador ,Taiwan and
U.S.)

2012 Blue Ribbon Task Force

A group of leading chefs and culinarians from across the United States is helping us shape the Seafood Watch program.

Sustainable Seafood Recipes

What do you get when you take the best chefs in the country, mix in ocean-friendly seafood and add a dash of imagination? An array of delicious and sustainable recipes that you can create at home! You’ll find something to satisfy everyone, from roasted coho salmon to spaghetti with Manila clams.

New Updated Report: Turning the Tide: The State of Seafood

Have you read our benchmark report that highlights how our oceans are affected by the ways we catch and farm seafood? Turning the Tide: The State of Seafood documents the problems and innovative solutions. It also describes how fishermen, consumers, businesses and governments are recognizing and responding to the threats. The report has just been updated with the latest facts and figures for 2012.

A Fresh Approach to Seafood Watch Science

We're taking a new approach to creating the comprehensive research reports that underpin our seafood recommendations. It won't result in significant changes to our recommendations but allows us to update reports more frequently, present our results more clearly, and offers the potential for evaluating even more seafood species.

Help Us Put Ocean-Friendly Seafood on the Map!

The Seafood Watch app brings you up-to-date recommendations for ocean-friendly seafood and sushi. And now, the Project FishMap feature lets you share the location of restaurants and stores where you've found sustainable seafood, and see what others have found near you.

Announcing the Seafood Watch App for Android!

When we launched our app for iPhone®, Android users told us they wanted an app of their very own, so we set to work. Now you can get our sustainable seafood recommendations on both Android phones and iPhones. Making ocean-friendly choices just got easier.

Whole Foods Market, Aquarium Partner to Launch Sustainable Seafood Ratings Program

Whole Foods Market, in partnership with the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Blue Ocean Institute, has launched a sustainability-rating program for wild-caught seafood sold in all of its 298 stores. The company is committed to ending sales of red-rated species by March 2013.