In an effort to eat sustainable and, in particular, to protect our world’s fisheries, we recommended you pick up a copy of Blue Ocean Institute’s guide to ocean friendly sushi. After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, additional concerns have been raised about the Gulf of Mexico’s food industry.

We recently discovered online the array of publications from The Chefs Collaborative and suggest reading the “Food Producers and their Place-Based Foods at Risk in the Gulf Coast,” pictured left. The downloadable guide has a useful section on foods at risk in the Gulf Coast foodshed, breaking them into categories of threatened, endangered and oil damaged.

It’s scary to find out that the goliath grouper is both endangered and oil damaged. But even scarier to look at the map of the oil leakage across the Gulf.

The Chefs Collaborative also provides a wallet card, “A Guide to Good Eating,” citing community restaurants committed to serving local, seasonal, artisanal and sustainable cuisine.

All materials can be found online at www.chefscollaborative.org.