Seafood Watch on your iPhone

Now you can get the most up-to-date Seafood Watch recommendations on your iPhone or iPod touch. Simply visit the App Store and download the free, official app from the Monterey Bay Aquarium directly to your device. Then just browse the guide or search for your favorite seafood by name. If you've got another brand of cell phone or mobile device, use your phone to log on to mobile.seafoodwatch.org and you'll be automatically directed to our online pocket guides, just in time for you to order your next seafood meal.

San Francisco Partners Form Alliance

Three Seafood Watch partners have teamed up to expand awareness about ocean-friendly seafood in the San Francisco Bay Area. The San Francisco Seafood Watch Alliance, composed of the Aquarium of the Bay, the California Academy of Sciences and the San Francisco Zoo, will work to educate consumers, restaurants and the seafood industry on the importance of choosing seafood that is caught or farmed in ways that support healthy oceans.

Test Your Sushi Smarts with Our New Game!

Think you're sushi savvy? Order from our online sushi menu and see how sustainable your choices really are. You'll get the skinny on your favorite sushi items, and learn how to place your order for healthy oceans.

Seafood Watch Honored by TreeHugger.com

The Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch program was selected as the "Best Source of Sustainable Seafood Information" by the leading green website, Treehugger.com. Your votes also helped us win "Best of Food and Health" honors. Treehugger's first-ever "Best of Green Awards" recognize leaders in the movement to live more lightly on planet earth.

Now the Ocean's in Google Earth

Now Google Earth lets you dive into the ocean, explore marine habitats and make ocean-friendly seafood choices. The Monterey Bay Aquarium, the Aquarium's Seafood Watch program and scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute contributed to the Ocean in Google Earth, released February 2. Launch the application and use the side navigation to go to: Layers> Ocean> State of the Ocean, and ensure the box marked "Seafood Watch" is checked.

The Seafood Watch Sushi Pocket Guide is Here

Now sushi lovers have a way to make seafood choices that please the palate and safeguard the world's ocean wildlife. The Seafood Watch sushi pocket guide ranks popular sushi selections based on whether they are prepared using seafood that's caught or farmed in ways that harm the ocean.

Seafood Watch Guides at 2009 Sundance Film Festival

Ocean issues are prominent at this month’s Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah—and Seafood Watch is involved. Sundance is the premier showcase for independent filmmakers worldwide and this year two films bring the Seafood Watch message to viewers: The End of the Line, which chronicles the drastic effects of overfishing; and
The Cove, which exposes a clandestine operation in Japan that captures and sells dolphins.

Seafood Watch Wins Top Award from Bon Appétit

Bon Appétit Magazine has named Monterey Bay Aquarium as its “Tastemaker of the Year” for 2008, recognizing our Seafood Watch program for its influential role in transforming seafood buying habits across the United States.

Seafood Watch Webcast: Archived Edition

Get the inside scoop on what seafood to savor and what fish to forgo in this archived edition video webcast. Portola Cafe Executive Chef Dory Ford and Seafood Watch manager Sheila Bowman share tips for choosing and preparing sustainable seafood dishes.

ARAMARK Partners with Seafood Watch

ARAMARK, one of the world’s leading professional facilities management and food service companies, is partnering with Seafood Watch to shift its U.S. seafood purchases toward sustainable sources over the next decade. It’s another big step toward creating market demand that will change fisheries and fish-farming practices around the world.

Common Vision for Sustainable Seafood

The Conservation Alliance for Seafood Solutions—fourteen conservation organizations across North America, including the Monterey Bay Aquarium—announced an agreement in May on the "Common Vision for Environmentally Sustainable Seafood," highlighting a clear path for achieving sustainability in the seafood industry.

For more information about the Conservation Alliance for Seafood Solutions and the Common Vision, visit www.solutionsforseafood.org.

Happy Feet and Seafood Watch

The 2007 DVD release of the Academy Award®-winning animated film Happy Feet includes a Seafood Watch pocket guide and a short film about how your seafood choices can help penguins and other ocean wildlife. The pocket guide is also featured on the Happy Feet website.