3. Eat Eco-friendly Seafood
Nearly 70 percent of the world's fisheries are fully fished or overfished, and many fish farms are extremely polluting. Imported shrimp, now the most popular seafood in the U.S., exacts an especially negative environmental toll. For every pound of shrimp caught, over five pounds of marine life is killed. And imported farmed shrimp is no better - the farms regularly spill pesticides into surrounding waterways, poisoning local communities and destroying over a quarter of the world's vital mangrove forests.
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Three organizations have free, easy-to-use guides to choosing eco-friendly seafood.
Audubon's
Guide to Seafood
Environmental
Defense's Seafood Selector
Monterey
Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch
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If only 1,000 of us stop eating shrimp, we can save over 12,000 pounds of sea life this year alone and begin to protect the world's precious mangrove forests.
