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Nothing is a simple as it seems. Even choosing to eat the humble fish is fraught with pitfalls.The Australian Marine Conservation Society ACMS recently introduced the Sustainable Fish Finder which if not complicating the matter certainly makes me feel bad about my eating habits.Around the world fish come by different names, some designed to hide their breed and origin. So if you are in the US or Australia and see Sea Bass on the menu you being offered the threatened Patagonian Toothfish and should avoid it.Good choices include blue grenadier, barramundi, blue-eye cod, bream, yellowfin tuna, flathead, king george whiting, mackerel, mullet, snapper and coral trout.We don’t agree with all the bad choices. For example, farmed salmon and trout are highlighted because they are fed wild caught fish and can escape. We reckon they are ok. The rule of thumb is to avoid deep sea fish, those that take a long time to reach maturity and ones caught on lines (which also tend to catch and drown the threatened Albatross)Now we feel a lot worse about eating that 50 year old coconut crab.

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