Earlier today we looked at a simple question; Is Eating Seafood More Eco-friendly Than Eating Meat?. The general answer was no. There’s more too it than just yes or no though. It is possible to make smart eco-choices when it comes to the seafood on your plate.

As noted in the last fish post, don’t buy fish from questionable places like a fish farm.
Avoid seafood that’s caught with trawling efforts.
Like most foods, buying local and in-season seafood is eco-friendly, however since we all don’t live on the coast, here’s some extra purchasing help…

The Environmental Defense Fund has a few handy guides …read more

We’ve talked about the eco-benefits of eating a vegetarian diet here at THF before, but we haven’t looked into fish that much.
Fish on your plate is not always very eco-friendly.
The negatives of fish:
Trawling caught seafood: Trawling, in short, is basically when folks who catch seafood use big ol’ nets that not only catch the product the net is meant to catch (say shrimp) but also catches lots of other sea creatures. These sea creatures, called bycatches are not used or tossed back to sea either, they’re simply killed for no reason other than they happen to live in the …read more