Eat Fish Sustainably
There are many ways to achieve sustainable fisheries and help fish stocks recover. MCS believes that consumers have an ever more important role to play. MCS has developed a Sustainable Seafood Programme, providing guidance for consumers and retailers on buying the most sustainably caught fish and shellfish.
Created 7 months ago by Marine Conservation Society (MCS)
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The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) is the UK charity dedicated to caring for our seas, shores and wildlife. MCS campaigns for clean seas and beaches, sustainable fisheries, and protection for all marine life. On this site, you can find out more about marine animals from whales, dolphins, sharks and turtles, to fish, plankton, corals and crabs.
The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) Sustainable Seafood Directory lists UK-based fish suppliers, restaurants and businesses that have made sustainable sourcing of seafood a prime objective of their business. By identifying and promoting these businesses, MCS aims to support demand for the most sustainable sources of seafood available.
To help you develop a sustainable fish buying policy MCS has produced a Guide to Sustainable Buying. If you are interested in making sustainable seafood choices whenever you buy fish or eat in a restaurant click on the Lists tab for a list of Fish to Eat or Fish to Avoid, or to download a copy of the latest MCS Pocket Good Fish Guide. Copies (up to 10 FREE) of the Guide can also be obtained by calling 01989 566017.
The following is a list of fish available to the UK and European consumer which have been given a rating of 5 and which MCS believes are most vulnerable to over-fishing and/or are fished using methods which cause damage to the environment or non-target species.
The list is in alphabetical order not order of threat or impact:
1. Alfonsinos or golden eye perch
2. American plaice
3. Argentine or greater silver smelt
4. Atlantic cod (from overfished stocks)
5. Atlantic halibut
6. Atlantic salmon (wild caught)
7. Black Scabbardfish (trawled from Northern Stocks)
8. Blue ling
9. Brill(beam-trawl caught from the North Sea)
10. Patagonian toothfish (non MSC certified fisheries)
11. Nursehound (bull huss, dogfish, flake, greater spotted dogfish) and Spurdog (piked dogfish, rock salmon, spiny dogfish)
12. European Hake
13. Greater forkbeard
14. Grouper
15. Ling
16. Marlin (blue, Indo-Pacific & white)
17. Monkfish (from North and North West Spain, Portuguese Coast)
18. Orange roughy
19. Plaice (from overfished stocks)
20. Rat or rabbit fish
21. Red or blackspot seabream
22. Redfish or ocean perch
23. Roundnose grenadier
24. Seabass (trawl caught only)
25. Shark
26. Skates and Rays (except mature cuckoo, spotted and starry rays)
27. Snapper
28. Sturgeon
29. Swordfish
30. Tiger prawn (except organically farmed)
31. Tuna (except dolphin friendly,pole and line caught yellowfin and skipjack)
32. Turbot(from North Sea)
33. Tusk or torsk
34. Wolfish
If your business has a sustainable fish buying policy and sells fish from the MCS Fish to Eat List or you are a restaurant and can commit to not selling fish from our Fish to Avoid List or to one of the other levels indicated, and you would like your company details listed in the MCS Sustainable Seafood Directory, please contact info@mcsuk.org for a Seafood Directory information pack.
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