Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch ^® Programme

Trophic level links seafood sustainability to human health

“…Gerber et al . ( Front Ecol Environ 2012; 10[9] : 487–493) provided an intriguing assessment of the positive association between seafood sustainability as assessed by the Monterey Bay Aquarium (Dianto Kemmerly 2009) and human health benefits, namely lower levels of methylmercury. Although acknowledging the impact of trophic level (TL) – in that carnivorous species tend to live longer, and hence biomagnify and bioaccumulate methylmercury – the authors did not include this critical trait in their analysis.…”