Sustainable Ideas...

If sushi might be on your menu this weekend, consider downloading a sustainable sushi guide to bring along with you. We’ve covered sustainable fish guides, but there’s a new guide out this month, and the guides in general are a wonderful, useful way to eat sustainably wherever you are. (To read what we’ve covered, here are past blog posts about mercury dangers and sustainable seafood.)

Sushi restaurants are, apparently, behind the curve when it comes to serving sustainable options, unlike chefs who cook fish at general seafood restaurants, sushi chefs may not know where fish came from and whether it was farmed or caught. And, too many of us don’t even think about sustainability when choosing our maki rolls or platters and order plates and plates of over-fished or endangered fish. For example, right now, mackerel is in and octopus is out, according to the AP on MSNBC.com, while bluefin tuna is very, very out. Other fish to avoid: monkfish, freshwater eel,l and red snapper.

Download a guide from The Monterey Bay Aquarium or The Environmental Defense Fund to use this weekend.

Photo of a sushi bouquet from The New York Sushi Blog.