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Marlin, white
Tetrapturus albidus |
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REASON TO AVOID
Atlantic white marlin has been overfished for many years and is still below safe levels. Avoid eating.
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ADVICE / ALTERNATIVES
No similar fish can be recommended but look at our Fish to Eat list and try something else.
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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) |
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Chilean seabass or Patagonian toothfish (from all areas except the South Georgia fishery) |
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Cod, Atlantic (Avoid wildcaught from all areas except Northeast Arctic and Iceland) |
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Dogfish or spurdog or rock salmon or flake |
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Dublin Bay Prawn or langoustine or scampi (from Spain and Portugal) |
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Eel, conger |
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Eel, European |
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Grouper |
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Haddock (from the Faroes and West of Scotland fisheries) |
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Hake, European (Southern stock) |
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Halibut, Atlantic (Wild Caught) |
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Halibut, Greenland |
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Herring or sild (from West of Scotland, West Ireland, and Great Sole fisheries) |
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Ling (except handline caught from the Faroes) |
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Lobster, American (from Southern New England stocks) |
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Marlin, black |
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Marlin, blue (from Atlantic longline and purse seine fisheries) |
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Marlin, Indo-Pacific blue |
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Marlin, white |
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Nursehound (from Bay of Biscay and Iberian stocks) |
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Orange roughy |
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Plaice (from the Western Channel, Celtic Sea, Southwest Ireland and West of Ireland and Baltic Sea) |
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Prawn, tiger and King(except organically farmed, or GAA/GlobalGap certified) |
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Ray, blonde |
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Ray, sandy |
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Ray, shagreen |
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Ray, smalleyed (from Bay of Biscay and Iberian stocks) |
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Ray, thornback or roker (from Bay of Biscay and Iberian stocks) |
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Ray, undulate |
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Salmon, Atlantic (Wild Caught) |
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Seabass (Pelagic Trawl only) |
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Shark, mako |
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Shark, porbeagle |
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Shark, tope |
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Skate, common |
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Skate, longnose |
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Skate, Norwegain or black |
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Skate, white |
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Sole, Dover or common (from Irish Sea) |
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Starry smoothhound (from Bay of Biscay and Iberian stocks) |
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Sturgeon, caviar (Wild Caught) |
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Swordfish (Longline and Gillnet fisheries in Indian Ocean, Mediterranean, and Central and Western Pacific) |
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Trout (Brown or Sea, wild caught from Baltic) |
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Tuna, albacore (Longline and Trawl caught from the North and South Atlantic and the Mediterranean) |
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Tuna, bigeye |
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Tuna, northern bluefin |
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Tuna, Pacific bluefin |
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Tuna, skipjack (Purse seine from W Atlantic) |
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Tuna, southern bluefin |
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Turbot (Wild caught) |
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Wolffish |
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