When you cook for yourself you can easily identify which seafood product has been wildly caught (sustainable) and which hasn’t. But what about when you eat out? Not so easy to identify which seafood comes from a sustainable environment.

Thanks to a new website, Fish2fork.com, you can now find figure out which of the seafood you order is sustainable. The website has a rating system that rates a restaurant on its performance of serving sustainable fish.

In addition to educating consumers about the pollution of our waters, Fish2Fork also wants to make known the problem of overfishing which leads to more types of fish that become endangered. And for most consumers, these problems are out of sight, which means out of mind.

Most restaurants give little or no information on the source of their fish, which aids in diners being disconnected from their food. For example, if you knew that the fish special you just ordered was near the last of it’s species, you’d probably think twice about ordering it. Fish2Fork is hoping that consumers with this knowledge will make better choices, helping to protect fish and other sea life.

When rating restaurants, Fish2Fork takes into account several factors when determining a restaurant’s score.

• They see if the seafood served is endangered an species list and/or the “fish to avoid” list.

• They also rate restaurants on providing the information of where the fish or shellfish came from. E.g. is it farmed, wild, line caught etc..

• Customers also have the ability to “rat on a restaurant,” or praise a restaurant they like.

If you want to eat only sustainable seafood, check out Fish2Fork’s website. They have a growing database of restaurants that you can search.

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