Great question! If you’re pregnant, you should definitely be eating fish, as it’s been shown to help with the development of the baby’s brain. BUT, you need to be really vigilant about your intake of mercury, the pollutant most often found in large fish. So stay away from shark, swordfish, and most kinds of tuna; bluefin, albacore, yellowfin, and bigeye varieties of tuna are all high in mercury.

Instead, eat small fish that haven’t had time to build up a lot of toxins in their bodies. The following fish and seafood are low in mercury and high in omega-3 fatty acids (which help heart health and cancer prevention). These fish come from healthy, abundant fish populations, so you can feel good about eating them: herring, farmed oysters, sardines, sablefish, Atlantic mackerel, and anchovies. If you’re craving tuna, look for skipjack, a species that’s lower in toxins.

I hope that helps!

Great question! No, there’s no website that lists from whom restaurants source their seafood. However, if the restaurant is concerned with safe seafood issues, you can usually find some info about it online. For example, I just googled “Le Bernardin seafood,” to see if I could find some info on this top French joint’s seafood choices. I quickly found a statement from chef Eric Ripert saying he won’t serve “Chilean sea bass, grouper, shark, swordfish, or wild bluefin tuna.”

For now, the most direct way is to ask your server at the restaurant. Any good restaurant should be able to tell you where its seafood originates! If they can’t, they will catch on once people start asking.

By the way, is there a good source for figuring out where restaurants get their fish if they don’t advertise it on their menus?