The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program helps consumers and businesses make choices for healthy oceans. Our recommendations indicate which seafood items are “Best Choices,” “Good Alternatives,” and which ones you should “Avoid.”

Seafood Watch raises consumer awareness through our pocket guides, website, mobile applications and outreach efforts. We encourage restaurants, distributors and seafood purveyors to purchase from sustainable sources. Our recommendations are science-based, peer reviewed, and use ecosystem-based criteria. Since 1999, we’ve distributed over 40 million pocket guides, our smartphone application has been downloaded nearly a million times and we have close to 200 partners across North America, including the two largest food service companies in the U.S.

Check out SW’s seafood recommendations, restaurant partners, and sustainable seafood recipes. You can also learn more about the ocean issues here, as well as what consumers and businesses can do.