Seafood Watch

[Soul Queen]

This weekend Whyvon, Miguel, Laura and I went to the Monterey Aquarium.
I don't have to say how awesome it was. I'll post some pictures later.

One of the extremely cool items I found was a pocket Seafood guide. This guide outlines which are the best types of fish to eat, some good alternatives and which items are best to be avoided.
Here is an online version of it: http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/cr_seafoodwatch/download.asp

You can click on your region to see what seafood to eat, and which are best to avoid because they are caught or farmed in ways that harm other marine life of the environment.

One of the cool items to note is that even though your favorite fish is on here, there are some alternatives.
For example the West Coast has Mahi, Mahi listed as to be avoided. It also notes to avoid the imported Mahi Mahi. The local stuff should be okay.

World Wide overfishing is problem. I think it doesn't hurt to think about where your food is from , was it farmed or wild caught and in what manner it was obtained.

There is other information on www.seafoodwatch.org (http://www.seafoodwatch.org).

[poofdogg]

I agree Monterey Aquarium is very cool. Last year my company rented out the place for the employees to attend and run around with waiters serving appetizers and drinking beer. It was sweet. Then, they set up a room on the 2nd floor in the middle of this awesome display with tables and we sat down and ate dinner in the middle of it all.

That's the way to see the Monterey Aquarium. :)

[Soul Queen]

So this weekend, I was a little less lazy and put my Monterey picts online.

Here is link: http://picasaweb.google.com/meta.lackland/MonterayAquarium?authkey=GfxSqHZ0NbE

Also one of the most beautiful places to be. The aquarium rocks!

[Ag Au]

those jellyfish pics (red on blue background) are really awesome. thanks for posting.