The Monterey Bay Aquarium maintains an excellent list of which seafood to eat and which to avoid. They even go the extra mile and provide lists specific to where you live in the US.

You can download these little guides that can be folded up to fit into your wallet, and there's even an iPhone app. Highly recommended.

http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/cr_seafoodwatch/download.aspx

Since I started going by this, I've been saddened to see how crappy NYC restaurants are at doing the right thing by the fishies. My department went to lunch at Hillstone's recently, and every single seafood option was from the "avoid" list.

Duane Reade sells sushi too! is that crazier than Walmart? Sushi's the healthiest fast food choice next to McDonald's apple dippers. JK. I don't have money to eat any of this stuff.

Dammit, another reason to get sucked into Target. Damn you for your responsible sourcing practices, you giant megacorporation.

(I already buy Fair Trade coffee and organic food from Target.)

Wait, Target sells sushi?

"Target sushi will be changed over to wild salmon.."

umm, doesn't the word sushi really refer to the _rice_, not the fish?

no

Something tells me this won't impact most of the customers at the Brooklyn Target...

STOP CONSUMING ANIMALS!

go vegan.

Fish is meant for bears...see the photo above.

eat shit.

I consumed around 7 or 8 different types of fish last night, in nice big fat raw slabs cut straight off the dead fish itself. It was great.

Why should only big, burly, hairy gay men be the only ones to eat fish?

It seems a counterintuitive proposition.

Eating red meat will not only make you less moody but it will also give you a much better sex life.

If only being vegan was the healthiest choice for everyone.

Signed, a life-long vegetarian

No.

Sounds counter intuitive, but in fact this is correct. Wild Salmon populations are very very healthy and abundant. Farmed salmon is extremely polluting, and they are fed shit that makes them fat and sick, passing along those detriments to the consumer. Sustainability and seafood is extremely complicated. For some species wild caught is best, for others (rarely) farmed is best. For species that are endangered, we shouldn't be eating them at all: Chilean sea bass is one prime example. Bluefin tuna is another.

Since when did Target sell sushi?

Seriously. Target has sushi? Target has fish?

"taking this important step to ensure that its salmon offerings are sourced in a sustainable way that helps to preserve abundance, species health and doesn't harm local habitats."

doesn't catching from the wild harm the local habitat? Isn't farming usually designed to be sustainable? This seem ass backwards to me

Wild catches are strictly limited by quotas.

As for if aquaculture is done sustainably, consider this question: Is factory farming of cows, pigs, and chickens usually done in a sustainable manner?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaculture_of_salmon#Issues

Yeah, it all depends on what farm you buy your fish from. As long as you don't buy Chinese, you're buying fish that have been kept in a pen and fed...wait for it...shrimp. Yeah, the exact kind they eat in the wild. All those accusations of people dying the salmon to turn their flesh pink? Turns out that's just because they feed them the WHOLE shrimp, like in the wild--there's a chemical in their eyes that helps give salmon flesh its pink color.

But no, let's listen to the multi-million dollar, taxpayer funded ads from Alaska advertising its wild salmon industry. 'Cause those will be unbiased.