Posted on May 18, 2011 - by Crystal Cun
Sustainable Seafood Tools and Gadgets
This is a handy list of tools that can be used to help decide what fish to purchase. It includes traditional wallet cards and mobile phone apps. For more in-depth guides and information, see our resource page for links to aquariums and conservation groups working on seafood issues.
Mobile Phone Apps
- FishPhone: Get sustainable seafood info from your mobile phone. You can download the free FishPhone app for iPhone, or text 30644 with the name of the fish in question.
- Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch and Project FishMap: Recommendations for ecofriendly seafood, and map the locations of restaurants and retailers where you’ve found sustainable seafood. Available for Android and iPhone.
- Environmental Defense Fund: just point your web-enabled mobile device to m.edf.org/seafood
- SeaChoice: a seafood selection app compiled for Canadians, available for iPhone
- Ocean Wise: another seafood app for Canadians and iPhone, sponsored by Vancouver Aquarium
Wallet Guides
- Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch (region specific)
- Shedd Aquarium
- Blue Ocean Institute
- Environmental Defense Fund
- SeaChoice (Canada)
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I was really starting to enjoy Swai until I realized it comes from Vietnam. Not only do I not want my fish to come from that far, I still have visions of napalm… And I used to only buy gulf shrimp, until BP. Have not bought shrimp since then. My local bison grower quit last fall. For me it is getting harder and harder to get any protein except eggs, and my sources dry up in winter for local ones. Everything so expensive except the bad choices. Please keep addressing this for us newbies. Thank you. I may have to go back to canned tuna.