The Singapore Seafood Guide

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The guide uses an internationally agreed method to assess seafood sustainability to help you make the best seafood choices. It groups some of the most popular seafood species in Singapore into 3 categories:
Recommended
From well-managed, sustainable stocks which are not considered to be over-exploited. These species are the preferred eating choice.
  Think Twice
From fisheries that are at risk of becoming unsustainable, due to mangement, environmental or stock issues. Only eat these species occassionally, if recommended options are not available.
  Avoid
Considered to be over-exploited, or from unsustainable, overfished and poorly managed fisheries. Avoid eating these species at present.
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Recommended
 
  • Abalone (Australia, wild caught)
  • Alaska Pollock (Alaska, wild caught)
  • Asiatic hard clam (Ben Tre, Vietnam, wild caught)
  • Chilean seabass (South Georgia/UK, wild caught)
  • Coral Trout (Australia, wild caught)
  • Geoduck (North America, Cultured)
  • Green lipped mussel (New Zealand, Cultured)
  • Mud crab (Sri Lanka/India, wild caught)
  • Narrow-barred Spanish mackerel (Malaysia, wild caught, gillnet)
  • Oyster (Canada/China, cultured)
  • Pacific Salmon (Alaska/US, wild caught)
  • Rock Lobster (Western Australia, wild caught)
  • Scallop/Asian Moon (China, cultured)
  • Squid/Bigfin reef (Malaysia, wild caught, trap)
Think Twice
 
  • Abalone (China, cultured)
  • Atlantic Salmon (Norway/Scotland, cultured)
  • Clam/Asiatic hard, Beach, Venus, White (Malaysia, wild caught)
  • Four finger threadfin (Singapore, cultured)
  • Longtail tuna(Malaysia, wild caught, purse seine/gillnet)
  • Milkfish (Singapore, cultured)
  • Mud spiny lobster (Sabah, wild caught, trap/gillnet)
  • Narrow-barred Spanish mackerel (Indonesia, wild caught, troll)
  • Orange mud crab (Indonesia, wild caught)
  • Seabass (Singapore, cultured)
  • Silver pomfret (South China Sea, wild caught)
  • Squid/Mitre, Swordtip, Long barrel (Indonesia, wild caught, jigs)
  • Yellow banded scad (Malaysia, wild caught, gillnet/purse seine)
  • Yellowtail fusilier (Malaysia, wild caught)
Avoid
 
  • Black pomfret (Indonesia (wild caught)
  • Bluefin tuna (Global, wild caught)
  • Brown-marbled grouper (Indonesia, cultured)
  • Chilean Seabass (Global, wild caught)
  • Coral Trout (SE Asia, wild caught)
  • Crimson snapper (Indonesia, wild caught)
  • Flower crab (South China Sea, wild caught)
  • Gold-banded jobfish (Indonesia, wild caught)
  • Grey prawn (Indonesia, wild caught)
  • Humphead wrasse (SE Asia, wild caught)
  • Malabar snapper (Indonesia, cultured/wild caught)
  • Orange-spotted grouper (Indonesia, cultured)
  • Polkadot grouper (SE Asia, wild caught/cultured)
  • Redspine threadfin bream (Indonesia/South China Sea, wild caught)
  • Tiger prawn (Indonesia/Thailand, wild caught/cultured)
  • Unicorn leather jacket (South China Sea, wild caught)
  • Yellowtail fusilier (Indonesia, wild caught)
  • Yellowtail scad (Thailand, wild caught)
 
 
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