Seafood Buying Guides

FishChoice’s Seafood Buying Guides are designed to help businesses buy and sell sustainable seafood and can be shared with staff and customers alike. These guides are tailored to meet business needs and include species bios, overviews on sustainability, culinary and nutrition characteristics, and unique sourcing information. Explore our 80+ available seafood guides below!

A

Acadian Redfish

Sebastes fasciatus

Albacore Tuna

Thunnus alalunga

American Lobster

Homarus americanus

Arctic Char

Salvelinus alpinus

Atlantic Cod

Gadus morhua

Atlantic Herring

Clupea harengus

Atlantic Mackerel

Scomber scombrus

Atlantic Pollock

Pollachius virens

Atlantic Salmon

Salmo salar

B

Barramundi

Lates calcarifer

Bay Scallops

Argopecten irradians

Bigeye Tuna

Thunnus obesus

Black Grouper

Mycteroperca bonaci

Black Sea Bass

Centropristis striata

Blue Crab

Callinectes sapidus

Blue Mussels

Mytilus edulis

Bluefish

Brown Shrimp

Farfantepenaeus aztecus

C

California Market Squid

Doryteuthis opalescens

Channel Catfish

Ictalurus punctatus

Chilipepper Rockfish

Sebastes goodei

Chinook Salmon

Oncorhynchus tshawytscha

Chum Salmon

Oncorhynchus keta

Coho Salmon

Oncorhynchus kisutch

D

Dover Sole

Microstomus pacificus

Dungeness Crab

Metacarcinus magister

E

Eastern Oysters

Crassostrea virginica

English Sole

Pleuronectes vetulus

F

Florida Stone Crab

Menippe mercenaria

G

Golden King Crab

Lithodes aequispinus

Golden Tilefish

Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps

Gulf Pink Shrimp

Farfantepenaeus duorarum

H

Haddock

Melanogrammus aeglefinus

Hard Clams

Mercenaria mercenaria

Hybrid Striped Bass

Morone chrysops X Morone saxatilis

J

Jonah Crab

Cancer borealis

L

Lake Whitefish

Coregonus clupeaformis

Lingcod

Ophiodon elongatus

Longfin Squid

Loligo pealeii

Longnose Skate

Raja rhina

Longspine Thornyhead

Sebastolobus altivelis

M

Mahi-Mahi

Coryphaena hippurus

Manila Clams

Venerupis philippinarum, Tapes phillippinarum

Mediterranean Mussels

Mytilus galloprovincialis

Monkfish

Lophius americanus

N

New Zealand Green Mussels

Perna canaliculus

New Zealand Hoki

Macruronus novaezelandiae

Northern Shrimp

Pandalus borealis

O

Opah

Lampris guttatus

P

Pacific Cod

Gadus macrocephalus

Pacific Halibut

Hippoglossus stenolepis

Pacific Ocean Perch

Sebastes alutus

Pacific Oysters

Crassostrea gigas

Pacific Sanddab

Citharichthys sordidus

Patagonian Toothfish

Dissostichus eleginoides

Petrale Sole

Eopsetta jordani

Pink Salmon

Oncorhynchus gorbuscha

Pink Shrimp

Pandalus jordani

R

Rainbow Trout

Oncorhynchus mykiss

Red Abalone

Haliotis rufescens

Red Grouper

Epinephelus morio

Red King Crab

Paralithodes camtschaticus

Red Snapper

Lutjanus campechanus

S

Sablefish

Anoplopoma fimbria

Sea Scallops

Placopecten magellanicus

Silver Hake

Merluccius bilinearis

Skipjack Tuna

Katsuwonus pelamis

Snow Crab

Chionoecetes opilio

Sockeye Salmon

Oncorhynchus nerka

Southern Tanner Crab

Chionoecetes bairdi

Spiny Lobster (California)

Panulirus interruptus

Spiny Lobster (Caribbean)

Panulirus argus

Spot Shrimp

Pandalus platyceros

Striped Bass

Morone saxatilis

Summer Flounder

Paralichthys dentatus

Swordfish

Xiphias gladius

T

Tilapia

Oreochromis spp., Sarotherodon spp., Tilapia spp.

W

Wahoo

Acanthocybium solandri

Walleye

Sander vitreus

Walleye Pollock

Gadus chalcogrammus

Western Red Lobster

Panulirus cygnus

White Seabass

Atractoscion nobilis

White Shrimp

Litopenaeus setiferus

Whiteleg Shrimp

Litopenaeus vannamei

Y

Yellowfin Sole

Limanda aspera

Yellowfin Tuna

Thunnus albacares

Yellowtail Rockfish

Sebastes flavidus

Yellowtail Snapper

Ocyurus chrysurus

Abalone

Bass-Croaker

Billfish-Shark-Swordfish

Catfish-Pangasius

Clams

Cod-Haddock

Crab

Flounder-Sole

Grouper-Snapper

Hake-Hoki-Whiting

Halibut

Herring-Sardines-Smelt

Lobster

Mackerel-Jacks-Pompano

Mussels

Other Finfish

Oysters

Pollock

Rays-Skates

Rockfish

Salmon

Scallops

Shrimp-Prawns

Squid

Tilapia spp.

Tilefish

Toothfish

Trout-Char

Tuna

Whitefish