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REASON TO AVOID
Ling is found from shallow coastal waters to the deep sea. It is more resilient to fishing than other deepwater species, but when occurring in deep water, it often occupies habitats that are vulnerable to the impacts of trawling. Other more vulnerable fish species are also taken as bycatch in ling fisheries. Avoid eating fish from deepwater stocks.
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ADVICE / ALTERNATIVES
Line-caught ling from the Faroe Islands provides the best available option for ling, although this is rated 4. The best option is to choose a different white fish species such as MSC certified Alaskan pollock or Pacific cod.
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The following is a list of fish available to the UK and European consumer which have been given a rating of 5 and which MCS believes are most vulnerable to over-fishing and/or are fished using methods which cause damage to the environment or non-target species. The list is in alphabetical order not order of threat or impact. Select a species to find out more. Click here to download the 2008-2009 version of the MCS Pocket Good Fish Guide (Adobe PDF). A new version of this guide will be available soon. |
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Brill (from all areas except Baltic Sea) |
| 2. |
Chilean seabass or Patagonian toothfish (from all areas except the South Georgia fishery) |
| 3. |
Cod, Atlantic (Avoid wildcaught from all areas except Northeast Arctic and Iceland) |
| 4. |
Dogfish or spurdog or rock salmon or flake |
| 5. |
Dublin Bay Prawn or langoustine or scampi (from Spain and Portugal) |
| 6. |
Eel, conger |
| 7. |
Eel, European |
| 8. |
Grouper |
| 9. |
Haddock (from the Faroes and West of Scotland fisheries) |
| 10. |
Hake, European (Southern stock) |
| 11. |
Halibut, Atlantic (Wild Caught) |
| 12. |
Halibut, Greenland |
| 13. |
Herring or sild (from West of Scotland, West Ireland, and Great Sole fisheries) |
| 14. |
Ling (except handline caught from the Faroes) |
| 15. |
Lobster, American (from Southern New England stocks) |
| 16. |
Marlin, black |
| 17. |
Marlin, blue (from Atlantic longline and purse seine fisheries) |
| 18. |
Marlin, Indo-Pacific blue |
| 19. |
Marlin, white |
| 20. |
Nursehound (from Bay of Biscay and Iberian stocks) |
| 21. |
Orange roughy |
| 22. |
Plaice (from the Western Channel, Celtic Sea, Southwest Ireland and West of Ireland and Baltic Sea) |
| 23. |
Prawn, tiger and King(except organically farmed, or GAA/GlobalGap certified) |
| 24. |
Ray, blonde |
| 25. |
Ray, sandy |
| 26. |
Ray, shagreen |
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| 27. |
Ray, smalleyed (from Bay of Biscay and Iberian stocks) |
| 28. |
Ray, thornback or roker (from Bay of Biscay and Iberian stocks) |
| 29. |
Ray, undulate |
| 30. |
Salmon, Atlantic (Wild Caught) |
| 31. |
Seabass (Pelagic Trawl only) |
| 32. |
Shark, mako |
| 33. |
Shark, porbeagle |
| 34. |
Shark, tope |
| 35. |
Skate, common |
| 36. |
Skate, longnose |
| 37. |
Skate, Norwegain or black |
| 38. |
Skate, white |
| 39. |
Sole, Dover or common (from Irish Sea) |
| 40. |
Starry smoothhound (from Bay of Biscay and Iberian stocks) |
| 41. |
Sturgeon, caviar (Wild Caught) |
| 42. |
Swordfish (Longline and Gillnet fisheries in Indian Ocean, Mediterranean, and Central and Western Pacific) |
| 43. |
Trout (Brown or Sea, wild caught from Baltic) |
| 44. |
Tuna, albacore (Longline and Trawl caught from the North and South Atlantic and the Mediterranean) |
| 45. |
Tuna, bigeye |
| 46. |
Tuna, northern bluefin |
| 47. |
Tuna, Pacific bluefin |
| 48. |
Tuna, skipjack (Purse seine from W Atlantic) |
| 49. |
Tuna, southern bluefin |
| 50. |
Turbot (Wild caught) |
| 51. |
Wolffish |
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