Our choices about what to eat have significant impacts on the health of the planet. For example, meat is considerably more resource intensive to produce than grain.
We need to be careful about what types of seafood we eat. Some fish populations are in danger, and/or are farmed using high impact fishing gear (driftnets, tuna, and dolphins). Others have pollution problems (e.g. mercury).
Environmental Defense has categorized seafood into Eco Best, Eco OK, and Eco Worst.
Anchovies, US catfish, mussels, pacific halibut, farmed oysters, and canned or Alaskan salmon are examples that are on the approved list.
White sturgeon caviar (NOT sturgeon caviar from the Caspian), wild clams, US King crabs, haddock caught by hook and line, and canned light or canned white Tuna are on the OK list.
Chinese crawfish, most non-farmed caviar, monkfish, Atlantic Halibut and farmed Atlantic Salmon are some of the fish on the avoid list.
Each webpage provides an explanation about the species of fish.
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