America's 10 Most Consumed Types Of Seafood

The National Fisheries Institute just released its list of the most consumed types of seafood in the U.S. for 2010. There are some obvious choices (salmon), but also some surprises. For each type of seafood, we included the recommendations of Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch, which guides consumers about sustainable seafood choices.

Check out the slideshow below to see if your personal consumption matches up with the national average. All statistics are in pounds per capita.

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[Alaskangel]

03:11 PM on 09/19/2011

Fresh Alaskan Salmon... Alaskan King Crab...Halibut...
It's great to live up here during the fishing season.

[extreme eugene]

11:47 AM on 09/17/2011

A Tilapia's diet consists of fish excrement. You can see them at zoo's in the hippo tank eagerly waiting for some fresh hippopoo.

[Casa-Giardino]

10:30 AM on 09/16/2011

Maybe Americans should eat much more than clams and shrimps.
http://casa-giardino.blogspot.com/2011/09/seafood-extravaganza.html

[Curlee]

08:26 PM on 09/15/2011

Fried catfish with cajun style rice & red beans is one of my favorite meals.

I'm so over tilapia. The more I ate it, the more I disliked it.

Cod and perch are my go-to fish for sandwiches.

The best fish which I can't afford is swordfish. I can seldom find it in the supermarket anyway.

[candyazzbb]

08:53 AM on 09/15/2011

shrimp is awesome my fav seafood. why is lobster not listed?

[Eddie VanderMolen]

09:18 PM on 09/14/2011

Wow! Michiganders are really out of the loop. Perch would probably be first with whitefish or salmon second and then walleye, trout, and smelt.

[mikeg0477]

11:13 PM on 09/14/2011

I wonder if trout and perch aren't on the list because they're freshwater, as opposed to "sea"food.

[mrh85]

01:07 PM on 09/14/2011

Man... no crawfish??? Crawfish season is my favorite time of the year.

[Rachel Crockett]

01:43 PM on 09/14/2011

Shhh, I don't want that to get out!

It's more crawfish for us! :D

[BraveCajun-LA]

05:54 PM on 09/15/2011

No kiding! Das mine chais!

[Westdude]

12:56 AM on 09/14/2011

Hahaha... don't forget, seafood lovers; in costal areas most of these wonderful creatures
fed on tons and tons of toilet trash that is daily pushed into the ocean.... Yack!...

[Carbon Forteetoo]

10:55 PM on 09/13/2011

I like walleye when I can get it.

[BayConnect]

10:53 PM on 09/13/2011

Fish (fried, baked, broiled) is just about the only thing that comes out of a restaurant kitchen on a plate that not favored with garlic.

I ordered a crab meat and lobster dinner at a high end restaurant that only tasted like garlic. Nowhere on the menu was garlic mentioned in this dish.

The sweet favor of the crab meat and lobster was destroyed by the garlic. The bottle of wine was wasted too!

Maybe some restaurant chef can explain why garlic must be used in everything on every restaurant plate?

[fumes]

04:08 PM on 09/14/2011

psst..

(that wasn't a ''high end'' restaurant)

[BayConnect]

11:15 PM on 09/14/2011

You are right! We have not been back to Rut. C..is since that dinner.

[tomteboda]

06:47 PM on 09/13/2011

I would like to point out that the advice against farmed salmon does NOT apply to US tank-farmed coho, sake, and silver salmon, which the Monterey Bay Aquarium lists as a "best choice".

http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/SeafoodWatch/web/sfw_factsheet.aspx?gid=17

[tomteboda]

06:40 PM on 09/13/2011

Most of the fish I consume comes from one of Minnesota's many lakes.

[fumes]

04:58 PM on 09/13/2011

what.. no lobster?

[HotheadPaisen]

10:04 PM on 09/13/2011

that was my thought as well.

[meeks]

01:32 PM on 09/14/2011

or scallops.

[Rachel Crockett]

01:41 PM on 09/14/2011

Who can afford lobster!?!

I love it, but it just doesn't fit the budget for like that last four years. :'(

I'm actually surpised sardines did not make the list.

[fumes]

04:09 PM on 09/14/2011

stop by Rach..

every friday night is lobster nite here..

[dwill123]

04:29 PM on 09/13/2011

What, no swordfish?

[Chad Wheeler]

06:05 PM on 09/14/2011

Perhaps people have gotten the memo that swordfishing may not be as sustainable as we thought?

[Desert Dune]

04:24 PM on 09/13/2011

Here is something weird - until just a few years ago I thought all fish were shaped like a perfect square. That's when my grandpa said "Desert boy, you need to stop eating at Mcdonalds!"