03-03-2010, 12:07 AM
billb wrote:
[quote=Winston]
[quote=Don Kiyoti]
Monterey Bay Aquarium has a great reference site about which seafood to get, if you're concerned about sustainability etc. It confirms what others here have said about farmed Atlantic salmon. Wild-caught Alaskan is GO!
Here is the salmon page:
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/Se...spx?gid=17
Interesting site. I was a little confused by their advice on canned tuna, which emphasizes albacore (white) tuna. I'd thought albacore was supposed to have higher mercury levels than other types. It sounded like their focus was on primarily on fishing techniques (sustainability and environmental impact) rather than the health issues. (Not that they didn't mention mercury as a concern - they just left me confused.) May need to research it some more.
- W
Albacore from the left coast is supposed to have the least mercury levels .
There's more politics in the ocean sciences than there should be.
Young tuna caught close to shore off Washington or Oregon has very low levels of mercury; the fish are too young and small to have absorbed as much as those big boys from deeper waters. Again, it's expensive, but available online. I like Tuna Guys
http://www.tunaguys.net/