Seafood Watch

Know Your Lobster’s Life Story

Dirk of Dirk’s Fish posted about this on Facebook and it’s pretty cool. It’s a website called This Fish that’s connected to the registry that keeps track of fish catches; if you can get the number of the tag on your whole fish, you can pop it in and find out where it was caught, by who, and even find out a little about them. It’s like Fishbook! (Dirk gives an example of a two-pound lobster currently, well at least as of yesterday, in his shop.) Besides the sheer novelty, it seems like it would be a good way to know you’re eating something that was harvested in accordance with sustainability guidelines… not to mention that the species they’re saying it is, is really what it is.

Know Your Lobster’s Life Story