THE APP REVIEW: Seafood Watch
What it says it does: Seafood Watch by Monterey Bay Aquarium brings the most current scientific recommendations to your fingertips, so you can make sustainable seafood choices quickly and easily—whether you're eating at your favorite restaurant or shopping for dinner. And with the new Project FishMap feature, you can contribute to the app by adding the names of businesses where you’ve found sustainable seafood. You can also locate seafood that others have found near you
What it actually does: Seafood Watch is a great app that lets users easily find out if the fish they are about to purchase or eat in a restaurant is a “best choice,” “good alternative,” or “avoid” according to the Monterey Bay Seafood Watch - in conjunction with their location. The app also allows users to search for seafood quickly and easily by common market names as well as Japanese names that will absolutely come in handy in any Japanese restaurant. You can even search local restaurants in your area that stock suggested seafood picks.
How useful is the information for target audience?: The information is extremely useful for those who are concerned with their personal, family and environmental health and who want to make the best choices in seafood. You’ll even learn a little as you go.
Ease of use: The app is easy to use and will facilitate great choices among consumers. Users can search the seafood before they buy – it’s an interactive pocket guide.
Who would best benefit from the app?: The app is great for anyone who is interested in making the best choices in seafood or who wants to search local restaurants that offer “ocean-friendly” picks.
Cost: Free
Rating: 4.5 of 5
More info: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/seafood-watch/id301269738?mt=8
Comments (1)
db:
Oct 18, 2012 at 05:58 PM
Monterey Bay Seafood Watch is great but ever since Fukushima (the great tsunami disaster that resulted in the subsequent mega industrial release of many tons of nuclear waste into the oceans rendering them approximately 10 times more radioactive than they've been since Hiroshima nuclear bombings) along with a retired Navy man who shared with me that tons of classified materials released from us and other countries not to mention materials that continuously release, materials from nuclear testing and other accidents ARE PRESENT in our oceans so, ever since then I quit all ocean source foods consumption, even post Fukushima salt of ocean source favoring earth sourced such as Himalayan salts and really try to minimize accidental consumption since radioactive isotopes are the most powerful elements concentrated and released by man and also the most dangerous causing much of the increase in cancers seen worldwide.
Also, a number of Japanese physicians corresponded with in the months following the Fukushima tsunami disaster stated that they and their families were similarly avoiding ocean sourced foods for these reasons!
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