SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD: Save The Environment, Slim Your Waistline, Smooth Your Skin

Whether it's Fish Friday throughout the year or during the forty days and nights of Lent, you need the right information regarding buying seafood. Make time to review this Voltégevity-Approved™ list of Sustainable Seafood before you go to your local supermarket or fish monger. That way, you save the environment, slim your waistline, and smooth your gorgeous skin.

Without further adieu, here's the list:

1) Pacific Halibut
(+) Buy this: Pacific halibut
(-) Instead of: Atlantic halibut, orange roughy
(?) Because: overfished

2) Farmed Sturgeon & Caviar
(+) Buy this: farmed sturgeon & caviar<
(-) Instead of: wild sturgeon & caviar
(?) Because: overfished, PCBs, mercury

3) U.S. Wild or Farmed Shrimp
(+) Buy this: U.S. wild or farmed shrimp
(-) Instead of: imported farmed shrimp
(?) Because: contaminants, pollution

4) Wild Salmon, Arctic Char
(+) Buy this: wild salmon, Arctic char
(-) Instead of: farmed salmon
(?) Because: PCBs, water pollution

5) Pacific Pollack, Alaskan Cod
(+) Buy this: Pacific pollack, Alaskan cod
(-) Instead of: Atlantic cod
(?) Because: overfished

6) Canned Light Tuna
(+) Buy this: canned light tuna
(-) Instead of: canned albacore tuna
(?) Because: mercury

7) Barramundi
(+) Buy this: barramundi
(-) Instead of: Red Snapper, grouper, Chilean sea bass
(?) Because: overfished, mercury

8) Mahi Mahi
(+) Buy this: mahi mahi
(-) Instead of: king mackerel, swordfish
(?) Because: mercury

9) Troll/Pole-Caught Skipjack or Yellowfin Tuna
(+) Buy this: troll/pole-caught skipjack or yellowfin tuna
(-) Instead of: bluefin tuna
(?) Because: overfished, mercury

10) Sablefish
(+) Buy this: sablefish
(-) Instead of: monkfish, Chilean sea bass, Patagonian toothfish
(?) Because: overfished

11) Yellowtail Snapper, U.S. Farmed Tilapia
(+) Buy this: yellowtail snapper, U.S. farmed tilapia
(-) Instead of: red snapper
(?) Because: overfished

12) Farmed Striped Bass
(+) Buy this: farmed striped bass
(-) Instead of: wild striped bass
(?) Because: PCBs, mercury

13) Farmed Abalone
(+) Buy this: abalone
(-) Instead of: queen conch
(?) Because: overfished

14) U.S. Farmed Tilapia, Black Sea Bass
(+) Buy this: U.S. farmed tilapia, black sea bass
(-) Instead of: all groupers
(?) Because: overfished, mercury

Now that you know what to buy, look for this stamp from the Marine Stewardship Council to confirm your selections of Sustainable Seafood:

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