best fish to buy?

[Martha27]

I always get confused by this and end up not buying anything! So can someone remind me- what is the seafood to avoid completly and what is ok to buy and eat both for human health and enviromental health? thanks!

[houseofblues]

Check out the Monterey Bay Aquarium website (www.montereybayaquarium.org) and look at their seafood watch page.  They have a downloadable pocket/wallet sized seafood guide for the healthiest, most sustainable seafood.  So you could take it with you to the grocery store...  Wild Alaskan seafood is usually a pretty safe bet.  Salmon is very healthy and my kids really like it.

[Owen'nZoe]

This is another site you can check: http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/fish/seafood/guide/

They apparently try to balance health, environmental pressures, and socio-economic benefits to the fishing communities. They also have good advice for avoiding putting too much pressure on popular sources of 'safe' seafood.