Seafood Restaurant Card
A downloadable card that can be taken to restaurants to let them know that you want healthy, local, and sustainable seafood choices.
There are lots of reasons to serve U.S. wild-caught seafood! Here are just a few:
- Nearly 90% of the shrimp that American consumers eat in restaurants or buy at the grocery store are imported. Less than 2% of all imported farm-raised seafood is inspected for chemicals that are banned in the U.S. and often utilized in shrimp farms abroad.
- Studies indicate that farm-raised fish have higher levels of chemical contaminants than wild fish. A 2005 analysis, showed chemical levels in farm-raised salmon at levels so high that, in order to lower the cancer risk to the middle of the acceptable range, consumption should effectively be eliminated.
Want your favorite restaurant to offer healthy, local, and
sustainable seafood? We do, too. But chances are, the shrimp scampi on
the menu or the fish special of the day isn't fresh from the ocean.
Rather, it's more likely to have been imported from a country such as
Vietnam or Thailand, where it's been raised in dirty ponds that pollute
the land and the seafood itself. And you're eating it.
Here's an easy and free way to make a
difference: 
download this free card
and print it. Fold it twice, according to the instructions on the card
itself, and leave it with your bill the next time you go to a restaurant. Let them know that you want healthy, local, and
sustainable seafood choices.