12 Unhealthy Fish You Need to Avoid and Why

Last Updated on January 7, 2021

In addition to all this, the U.S Food and Drug Administration found that most of the salmon in the market labeled as “Atlantic salmon’’ is actually a farmed one, meaning fish are actually raised in conditions that have been shown to be ridden with pesticides, feces, bacteria, and parasites.

What can you eat instead? Why not opt for wild Alaskan salmon.

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#8 – Imported king crab

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An estimated 75 percent of King Crab is imported from Russia, a country where unsustainable fishing practices are very common and aren’t strongly enforced. Cufone said that king crab is suffering from identity crisis, as very often, imported King crab is misnamed by people and even mislabeled in supermarkets as Alaskan king crab.

What people might not be aware of is that the “imported king crab” and “Alaskan king crab” are totally different. The latter is more wisely and responsibly harvested than the former.

What can you eat instead? Because you really have to avoid something called imported king crab, you should always pay attention to what the label says. And sometimes even if the label makes claims like “imported” and “Alaskan,” the majority of King crab is actually imported from Russia as it has been aforementioned. The solution? you’d better go domestic.

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#9 – Shark

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Sharks are among the fish you should never eat for some good reasons. The first could be that sharks or bosses of the sea as I like to call them are very high on the food chain which means high mercury levels that could be life-threatening to humans, says Cufone.

Another reason could be the ocean ecosystems. The latter suffer too, as the number of sharks is depleting, the number of cownose rays and jellyfish are increasing because only fewer sharks are there to eat them. Therefore, scallops and other fish are eaten by rays. This results in an economic strain on coastal communities that depend on those fisheries.

What can you eat instead? Pacific halibut and Atlantic mackerel can be the best alternative for sharks.