Greenest fish to eat?

Question

I love to eat fish, and am weaning myself off sushi. What is the most environmentally friendly fish to buy at the grocery store?

I live in Austin, so I assume all fish is brought in from a ways off and the selection isn't really the great.

Answer 1

hello fellow austinite,

the best choice is farmed fish of any kind.  we are not overfishing the seas, disrupting the ecosystem, and requiring fuel to go get them.

i bet you could get some good farmed tilapia or bass at whole foods

although, just because you get something at whole foods doesn't necessarily mean it's environmentally friendly.  even they import off-season produce from chile and other places around the world.  that is decidedly unfriendly to the environment.

Answer 2

farmed bass

Answer 3

Well if the fish is GREEN it;s spoiled  so don't eat it try  some nice fresh fish its better for you . and yes i know what you where asking jest hate the phrase GREEN . and any fresh water fish you buy in the store is Farm raised , so it's all OK to eat.

Answer 4

any farmed fish would be the best choice Tilapia is probably the best as it grows fast under farming condition but you can look at carp ,rainbow trout also known as steel head,any farm fish is better than something commercial fished

Answer 5

Commercial fishing needs to be radically restructured to protect the dwindling fish stocks. In a decade fish is going to be the food of the mega rich, as the methods and technology used to catch the few that remain has to become more sophisticated and average hauls drop, boats spend more and more time at sea trying to catch the few that remain. Imagine this, they already have to use helicopters to spot birds diving into the sea so they can catch the fish the bird was trying to eat.....

   Eat Blue Fin Tuna? I can not believe it.....

   BTW, there is no such thing as 'Dolphin safe tuna', what do people think that dolphins eat? The only dolphin safe tuna is the one in the sea. We may as well catch and eat the dolphins while they still have some meat on them because they are starving to death out there...... take it from me, I have seen more dolphins than most people have eaten sushi and I think I have enjoyed it more, what would you rather do???

  So, the most environmental fish to buy would be a chocolate one..... sorry, but there you go...

Answer 6

Any fish that you leave out for at least a week will be verly green.

Answer 7

i don't think there is any sustainable commercial fishing option really (sorry). you could move closer to the ocean and try fishing yourself if you feel like you need fish. the next best option would be farmed fish, but this has a whole myriad of problems of it's own - aside of problems such as the drugs fed to fish to prevent disease (as the fish are in such close confinement disease spreads easily), a less known fact is that big fish like salmon are actually fed fish pellets that originate from fish caught in the ocean. so you are actually just buying a fish that is high up on the food chain, eating non-farmed fish anyway!!

i eat vegetarian sushi - it's nice with egg, carrot sticks, gherkins (i think you call them pickles, i'm from new zealand), capsicum and avocado.

Answer 8

Go to pet store, get fish tank and rise anything you like; guppies  are the best.They eat little food. Fried guppies-delicious!

Answer 9

Easily Tilapia.  They taste good, eat almost anything, and are one of the most efficient crops there is.  Their waste can be used as fertilizer, and their food can be waste from other activities such as slaughter houses and beer breweries.  They are one of the most exciting crops for the future.

Answer 10

Bluefin tuna.  Since these are eaten raw you won't need to release greenhouse gases to serve them.

Answer 11

Probably carp, because of the abundant supply.

Answer 12

Go to the arctic and fish there, all the fish there end up being eaten by seals or polar bear. The seals and polar bear are already starving so there is no real change there.

Off Canada's east coast the fisheries have already pretty much collapsed. but we are still having a seal hunt to protect the fish stocks a bit.

We have major dead zones in hte oceans, areas so rich with CO2, so little oxygen, that all animal life that enters those zones dies.

Well forget about trivial decisions about which fish is greener and solve the real problems.

To fix up those dead zones the enormous mass of vegetation rotting into the ocean needs to be harvested and used as bio fuels so that it does not die and rot into the ocean.

No, it will do nothing to argue for less phosphate and nitrate going into the oceans. There will still be enough of both to sustain riotous plant growth for hundreds of years. Unlike inland waters which pass phosphates out as water flows thru, the ocean retains phosphate until it precipitates as calcium phosphate. Ocean acidification has slowed that down to the point that we have no shortage of phosphates.

Nitrates... this is funny. We have blue-green algae blooming above the dead zones and pumping nitrates into the water. No shortage of nitrates, regardless how little comes from farm fertilizer run off.

The world's oceans are so sick that we can not fix them by choosing green fish.