Your Sustainable Seafood Shopping List

 

     Seafood Market. Credit: FMSA

Recommendations for sustainable and tasty options for your holiday season table from Tom Worthington of Monterey Fish.

• Dungeness Crab (season starts 11/15!)
• Steelhead salmon from the Quinault Indians (may be delayed by recent weather)
• California swordfish (pregnant women and children should watch the mercury)
• Squid
• Sardines
• Ling cod and black cod
• Mackerel
• Oysters, clams, and mussels (farmed is OK; shellfish actually clean the water they live in)
• Atlantic cod and haddock from the hook-and-line fishermen of Cape Cod
• Scallops (look for Cape Cod bay and sea scallops; avoid any scallops sitting in milky liquid, which have likely been chemically treated)