Blinky the Shark > wrote:

>Nancy Young wrote:

>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_roughy

>I've been looking up orange roughys until I'm blue in the face; I'll
>assume that that's like all the others, which warn of a predicament for
>the species without using the established term "endangered".

It's on the "avoid" list at Seafood Watch:

http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/c...et.aspx?fid=54

Nancy's link shows that its conservation status is at the "vulnerable"
level of "threatened", which is one step below endangered.

See also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_status

for a definition of conservation status.

Steve