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Sustainable Seafood

• Introduction
• Fishing methods make a difference
• Defining sustainable
• Farmed and genetically-engineered fish
• Privatizing the ocean
• PCC's positions
• Articles and links

Articles

Download the report "Suspicious Shrimp, The Health Risks of Industrialized Shrimp Production" (PDF), Food & Water Watch, 2006.

Fish farms kill wild salmon, study finds, CBS News, October 2, 2006.

Farm sea lice plague wild salmon , BBC News, March 29, 2005.

PCC Sound Consumer articles

• Offshore fish farming — The selling of common waters (Sound Consumer, April 2005).
• New sustainable seafood guidelines (Sound Consumer, August 2004).
• Seafood safety, (Sound Consumer, December 2002). Information about mercury health alerts in fish.

PCC Public Policy Statements, for PCC's positions on issues affecting sustainability of our food supply. (see "Seafood, Oceans and Water")

PCC's sustainable seafood program

Seafood choices for healthier oceans, PCC's easy to use guide

Seafood health advisory chart (PDF)

U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy report

Links

"Alexandra's Echo," documentary about the Broughton Archipelago, detailing the effects of fish farms on ocean species including the wild salmon. By Alexandra Morton.

Alaska Marine Conservation Council

• Federal Promotion of Offshore Aquaculture: Fish Farming in Federal Waters

Audubon Society's Seafood Lovers Guide

Blue Ocean Institute

David Suzuki Foundation, Oceans & fishing

Environmental Defense, see their "Oceans Alive" campaign.

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Ocean Beauty Seafoods, Inc.

Ocean Champions

Seattle Aquarium

SeaWeb, and Ten Things You Can Do to Help the Ocean