Aussie Fish - Part II

More from Australia's Sustainable Seafood Guide: A guide to choosing your seafood wisely.

The seafood species in the "Think Twice" section are regionally overfished or prone to overfishing and may also be caught using fishing gear which can damage the seafloor or ocean wildlife.

This category also includes aquaculture prawns and barramundi - apparently the farming practices are a bit dodgy (obviously I'm paraphrasing...) but the guide says that with a few management improvements they would move up the ranks into the 'better choice' section (next post). Let's hope they pull their fingers out so we can buy their products!

Anyway - here's the "Think Twice Before You Buy" list:

Abalone: Species included are Greenlip, Blacklip, Brownlip and Roe's.

Barramundi: Also called barra, giant perch, silver barramundi.

Big-eye Tuna

Blue-eye Trevalia: Also called blue-eye cod, big eye, deep sea trevalia.

Blue Grenadier: Also called Hoki

Bugs: Species include moreton bay bugs, balmain bugs.

Cod and Groper: Species include coral cod, barramunki cod, rankin's cod, rock cod, black tip cod, estuary rock cod.

Coral Trout: Species include common, bar-cheek, blue-spot, coronation.

Dory: Species considered are John, king, mirror, silver, deep sea dory, and pacific dory.

Emporers (True emporers): Species include red throat, grass, long-nose, spangled, red spot - also called 'nor-west snappers in WA'.

Giant (King) Crab: Also called king crab.

Gold-band snapper: Also called gold-band jobfish (!!!), sharp-tooth jobfish/snapper.

Lobster: 3 species considred - Southern rock, eastern rock tropical rock (including ornate rock)

Mackeral: Species considered - Spanish (snook), spotted, school, grey

Mud Crab: also called black, brown, green, orange, mangrove.

2 species considered - giant mud, orange mud

Pink Ling: Also called kingclicp, ling, rock ling

Prawn (!!!!): Main species - King, Tiger, Banana, red spot, royal re, school, endeavor, black tiger, bay.

Red Emperor: (NOT red-throat emperor)

Scallop: Species considered, northern saucer, ballot's saucer, fan, doughboy, queen.

Snapper (Pink): Also called pink snapper, cockney, red bream, squire.

Snappers - tropical (including sea perch): Species considered - saddle back snapper -also called red bass, ruby emporer, red jew, crimson snapper - also called scarlett snapper, red sea perch.

Taylor: Also called - blue fish, skipjack.

Western Austraian Dhufish: Also called WA pearl perch, jewfish. Not to be confused with the northern, thread fin, or common pearl perches from Northern Australia.

Yellow-Fin Tuna: Also called tuna.

Prawn: Marine Aquaculture species - banana, black tiger, kuruma.

Barramundi: Also called barra, giant perch, silver barramundi.