the following animals and products(including meat), should not be bought or kept due to serious enviormental concerns (such as being rare, endangered or damaging).
Animals not to purchase
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Bluefin tuna
Yellowfin tuna
Swordfish
Blue marlin
Black marlin
Striped marlin
Goliath grouper
Queensland grouper
Orange roughy
California almonds
Mahogany (banned but still illegally available)
Golden grunter
Chilean sea bass /tooth fish
Red snapper
Lake trout
Arizona grown corn
Gnomefish
Sharkmeat
Wild alligator
Black bear (all)
Wolf (all)
Brown bear (all)
Polar bear
European eel
Whales/dolphins(meat available in some areas, though it violates international law except for a few tribal groups)
Barracuda
Hogfish
Yellowfin tuna
Swordfish
Blue marlin
Black marlin
Striped marlin
Goliath grouper
Queensland grouper
Orange roughy
California almonds
Mahogany (banned but still illegally available)
Golden grunter
Chilean sea bass /tooth fish
Red snapper
Lake trout
Arizona grown corn
Gnomefish
Sharkmeat
Wild alligator
Black bear (all)
Wolf (all)
Brown bear (all)
Polar bear
European eel
Whales/dolphins(meat available in some areas, though it violates international law except for a few tribal groups)
Barracuda
Hogfish
What about the commercially farmed seahorses?
siamese datnoids their status is worst than scleropages formosus but you can still buy them I think.
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And what about whitebait?
Fry returning from the ocean, caught by the millions. Endangered inanga, kokopu, koaro and other galaxiids.
Fry returning from the ocean, caught by the millions. Endangered inanga, kokopu, koaro and other galaxiids.
Exactly the kind of harvest that shouldn't happen.And what about whitebait?
Fry returning from the ocean, caught by the millions. Endangered inanga, kokopu, koaro and other galaxiids.
Another one not to buy is sea turtle eggs in Mexico (or elsewhere ).
While im a big proponent of conservation, i have to admit that i only eat wild caught fish. Farmed fish tastes terrible and is not as nutritious.
I do abstain from those fish critically endangered like chilean sea bass and the like. Dont think youll help the bluefin until you talk the japanese out of eating them! Thats where 90% of it goes lol.
I do abstain from those fish critically endangered like chilean sea bass and the like. Dont think youll help the bluefin until you talk the japanese out of eating them! Thats where 90% of it goes lol.
Might not help much, but I don't do bad things because other people do bad things.
Here's a list of more enviormentally SAFE fish to eat:
Sardines
Small bluegill
Common mackerel
Asian carp
Common carp (outside native range).
Feral tilapia
Bullseye snakeheads in Florida
Feral lionfish
Farm raised channelcatfish
Some salmon strains
Young rainbow and brown trout.
Black carp (United States )
Black and brown bullhead
Red piranha
Mullet
Alewife
More fish NOT to eat:
Smallmouth bass
Muskie
Halibut
Atlantic cod
Haddock
Midwest variety of American eels
Large (20 inches or more) pike
True wild paddlefish
Natural blue catfish
Piraiba
Tiger shovelnose
Redtail catfish
Wahoo
Amberjack
Goliath tigerfish
