Posted by 
Knowing what you should and shouldn’t be buying when it comes to seafood can be confusing. Conflicting reports on things you should and shouldn’t eat, what you should maybe be eating, the list changes depending on the country (fishing practices, over fishing, what’s available)…Here is a simple guide to what you should and definitely should not be eating:
No
Atlantic Salmon
Barramundi (sea caged)
Blue Warhou
Broadbill Swordfish
Commercial Scallop
Deepsea Perch
Eastern Gemfish
Flake
Gemfish
Hake
Kingfish
Mulloway
Ocean Trout
Orange Roughy
Oreo
Redfish
Shark (flake)
Silver Trevally
Snapper (pink)
Southern Blue-fin Tuna
Swordfish
Yellow-tail Kingfish
Yes
Abalone
Australian Salmon
Blue Mussel
Blue Swimmer Crab
Bream
Calamari
Crayfish
Cuttlefish
Flathead
King George Whiting
Leatherjacket
Mullet
Mulloway – wild fishery
Octopus
Oysters
Squid
Trevally
Western Rock Lobster
Yellow-tail Kingfish
For more information visit www.amcs.org.au
Thanks for posting this info for free!
Otherwise you have to BUY the guide from the AMCS…. doesn’t that seem a little anti-cause? I mean, I feel spoiled that Monterey Bay Aquarium puts the sustainable fish list up for free (I’m from California), they even hand out the free pamphlets when you go there, take as many as you like. I still have mine, but it’s from 2007, so I have to go check the website when I think of it because the situation fluctuates for what’s on the green list vs orange vs red every year. Now that I live in Australia it’s not that relevant because I need to know about what’s sustainable here.
The guide is only $10, but I think if they really want people to participate in this, it should be free.
Excuse my rant, but I get so upset when ‘green’ information is held back from the public… there is already enough stigma about environmental awareness here in Australia, and how ‘expensive’ it is to eat organic or be eco-conscious. We have to make this information easily accessible. In a perfect world, there would be a chart at every grocery store with the current information posted, letting the consumer decide on the spot what they want when they are fully educated.
I realize that the AMCS need funds in order to survive and be able to do the research necessary to find out what is what in the first place, but I’d be happy to give them a donation every year for doing a good job and making the info free to the public.
Anyhow, thank you for posting this list for free.
For anyone interested, the link to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch website is:
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/cr_seafoodwatch/sfw_health.aspx
or simply, seafoodwatch.org