The Marine Conservation Societys Pocket Good Fish Guide puts YOU in control.

YOU can safeguard the future of our fisheries and other marine wildlife by only choosing fish from sustainable sources. The Pocket Good Fish Guide lists which fish are the best sustainable choice, fish you should avoid completely, and the fish you can eat just occasionally, to limit pressure on their stocks.

If you love fish...

w Diversify your choice: Were too reliant on the
Big Five: cod, haddock, tuna, salmon and prawns. Choose species such as coley or gurnard instead of cod. Mackerel or pilchards instead of tuna. lower environmental impact, such as hand lined or pot caught.

wG  o green: Choose sh caught using methods with wL  ook at labels: The Marine Stewardship Council

(MSC) seafood ecolabel recognises and rewards sustainable shing. The Marine Conservation Society recognises MSC certied as a better environmental choice for many seafood products.

Getting the most out of your Pocket Good Fish Guide.

Check the table inside for the fish you want to buy or eat at a restaurant. Make sure you avoid eating fish in the red list, enjoy eating fish in the green list and only occasionally eat fish from the amber list.

wC  hoose organic when buying farmed seafood: Organic farms tend to have lower stocking
densities, higher environmental standards and use feed sourced sustainably, so look for the organic label.

wA  void eating sharks and deepwater fish:

For detailed information: www.shonline.org For consumer information: www.goodshguide.org.uk

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They tend to be slow growing, long-lived species such as redsh and orange roughy, which breed slowly and are therefore vulnerable to over-exploitation. Fishing for deep sea sh can harm other sensitive species like coldwater coral that may never recover. save our seas. The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) is the UKs leading charity for the protection of our seas, shores and wildlife. The voice for our seas for almost 30 years, MCS champions protection for marine wildlife, sustainable sheries and clean seas and beaches. To join us, visit:

wB  ecome a member: Be a part of the movement to

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Good Fish Guide A guide to choosing sustainable seafood

POCKET

2012

Species
Alaska or Walleye Pollock Anchovy Bream Clam Cockle Cod, Atlantic Coley or Saithe Crab Dab Eel Flounder Gurnard Haddock Hake Halibut Herring or Sild Lobster Mackerel Marlin Monkfish (Anglerfish) Mussel Oyster Plaice Pollack or Lythe Pouting or Bib Prawn (coldwater/northern) Prawn (King and Tiger) Red Mullet Salmon Sardine or Pilchard Scallop Scampi or Langoustine Seabass Shark & Dogfish (rock salmon) Skate and Rays Sole (Dover/Common) Sole (Lemon) Squid Sturgeon, Caviar Swordfish Tilapia Trout Tuna (Albacore) Tuna (Bigeye) Tuna (Bluefin) Tuna (Skipjack) Tuna (Yellowfin) Turbot Whitebait Whiting

Eat
Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands Bay of Biscay Black Bream (gill netted, line caught) Carpet shell; Manila (manually harvested) Hand gathered NE Arctic, Eastern Baltic, Iceland NE Arctic Spider (pot caught) Otter trawled, seine netted

Think
Western Bering Sea, Okhotsk Sea All other sources Black Bream (otter, pair trawled); Gilthead (farmed) Surf; Razor; Hard shell Dredged Celtic Sea, Baltic West, Faroes plateau North Sea, Iceland, Faroes Brown; Spider (net caught) Beam trawled All sources Tub or Yellow Iceland, Celtic & Irish Sea Cape & European (Northern stock) Iceland, W Scotland, Gulf of Riga,Irish Sea, E Baltic, Bothnian Bay European; American (all other sources) Mediterranean All other sources Dredged North & Irish Sea, Skagerrak & Kattegat, E Channel, Iceland Trawled All other sources Farmed (certified or Madagascan) Directed trawl fisheries Atlantic (farmed) Bay of Biscay, W Iberian Sea, Mediterranean King (dredged); Queen (trawled, other sources) All other sources Gill netted, farmed Lesser spotted; Nursehound (other sources); Starry Smoothhound Cuckoo; Spotted; Starry; Smalleyed; Roker (Skagerrak-Celtic Sea) Skagerrak and Kattegat, N Sea, Celtic Sea, East Channel, Bay of Biscay, SW & W Ireland, West Channel Trawled Trawled Longlined & gill netted (Indian Ocean (IO) & SW Indian Ocean) Brown (UK, net/trap); Brown & Rainbow (farmed, all other sources) All other sources Longlined & trolled (E Pacific, Atlantic), all methods (Indian Ocean) FAD purse seine (Indian Ocean, E, W & Central Pacific, E Atlantic), gill netted (Indian Ocean) All other sources North Sea

Avoid

Good Fish Guide KEY

Fish to eat...
...are from well managed, sustainable stocks or farms, or are resilient to fishing pressure. Green indicates species that are, in MCSs opinion, the best choice.

POCKET

All other sources

European & Conger Grey; Red NE Arctic, North Sea, Rockall Atlantic (farmed, onshore production); Pacific (US, Canada) All other sources All other sources

Fish to eat only occasionally...

Faroe Plateau, W Scotland Spanish & Portugese waters (Southern stock) Atlantic (wild caught); Greenland W Baltic, W Scotland (south), W Ireland, Porcupine Bank American (Southern New England) All Marlin Iberian Sea

...are from fisheries that are at risk of becoming unsustainable due to environmental, management or stock issues. They may also be recovering from previous over exploitation, species with relatively low resilience to modern fishing methods, or fish from farming systems that need to improve some of their practices. Amber means MCS recommends that you only eat these fish occasionally.

Farmed, hand gathered Native & Pacific (farmed) All other sources All sources NE Arctic, Canada Farmed (organic certified) Bycatch fisheries Pacific (all species, Canada & USA); Atlantic (organic farmed) Cornwall (drift or ring netted) King (diver caught); Queen (Isle of Man, otter trawled) Handlined

Fish to avoid...

Baltic Sea, W Channel, SW & West Ireland, Celtic Sea

Wild caught, non certified farmed Atlantic (wild caught)

...are from unsustainable, overfished, highly vulnerable or poorly-managed fisheries or farming systems. Or they may have high levels of unwanted by-catch (thats fish caught unintentionally whilst trying to catch other fish, which may then be thrown back dead). Red indicates that in MCSs opinion, you should avoid these fish until the fishery or farming system improves.

Harpooned (certified fishery, NE Pacific) Farmed (organic or closed production) Rainbow (organic farmed or freshwater ponds) Pole & line or troll caught (South Pacific) Trolled (Indian Ocean) Pole & line caught (Indian Ocean, Maldives EEZ); All methods (E,W & C Pacific, E & W Atlantic) Pole & line caught (Indian Ocean, Maldives EEZ) Farmed (onshore production)

All wild caught Mediterranean, South Atlantic, NW Pacific Brown or Sea (Baltic, wild caught) Long lined (IO), Longlined & pelagic trawled (N Atlantic & Med) All other sources All sources

All sources All sources

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Protecting our seas, shores and wildlife

133-2012 Ratings accurate at time of printing (Feb 2012).

Net or otter trawled (North Sea, Celtic Sea, East Channel, Bay of Biscay) Iceland, seine netted all other areas Jig caught

Portugese coast, North Galicia, Cantabrian Sea Pelagic trawled Shark; Nursehound (Bay of Biscay, Iberian waters); Spurdog All Skate. Blonde; Sandy; Shagreen & Undulate rays Beam trawled (W & SW Ireland, otter trawled (West Channel, Irish Sea)

Keep the facts with you...

Peel off the card below and keep this handy list of fish to eat and fish to avoid. You have the power in your pocket to make only sustainable seafood choices.

Better Choice
Atlantic Salmon (organic farmed) Atlantic Halibut (onshore farmed) Coley or Saithe (NE Arctic) Dab Herring Mackerel Mussel Oyster Pollack or Lythe Pouting or Bib Prawn - cold water (NE Arctic, Canada) Prawn - King or Tiger (organic farmed) Rainbow Trout (organic/freshwater farm) Sardine or Pilchard Skipjack Tuna

No Thanks
Atlantic Halibut (wild) Atlantic Salmon (wild) Bluen Tuna Deepwater sh (all) Eel Prawn - King or Tiger (wild & non certied farmed) Marlin Shark Skate Spurdog (Spiny Dogsh) Sturgeon Caviar (wild) Whitebait

POCKET

Good Fish Guide

2012

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