Have your seafood and eat it too, is the message behind the wallet-size consumers’ guide to seafood from New York-based Blue Ocean Institute. In conjunction with Oceana, Coastal Conservation Association, West Marine, United Anglers of Southern California, Blue Ocean printed a list of popular table species in descending order of wild status. Here’s a sampling you might want to use this weekend. For more, visit www.blueocean.org

Good stuff, relatively abundant, and fishing/farming methods cause little damage to habitat and other wildlife:

Farm Clams, Mussels, Oysters and Bay Scallops - Shellfish are filter feeders and don’t require fishmeal and fish oil for food. When farmed using suspended bags, nets or cages—as opposed to being dredged—mollusks

are a top choice.

Alaska Salmon - With good management and fairly healthy habitat, Alaska salmon remain abundant.

Striped Bass, wild and farmed

Mahi-mahi, pole- and troll-caught (not longline!)

Catfish, U.S.-farmed

Shrimp, U.S.-farmed

Bad, a combination of problems such as overfishing, high bycatch, and poor management, or farming methods have serious environmental impacts:

Groupers - Generally long-lived, many groupers have sedentary lives, change sex with age, and spawn in groups, making them vulnerable to overfishing. Most groupers sold in the U.S. are imported, generally from countries with little management. Some grouper species in U.S. waters are recovering with the aid of improved management.

Chilean Seabass - Really named Patagonian Toothfish, high demand for this naturally long-lived fish drives depletion and creates an incentive for continued illegal fishing.

Shrimp, imported