Finding out which restaurants in Los Angeles serve sustainable seafood isn’t easy. I’ll read about individual restaurant’s fish-related policies in random reviews, but no easy-to-find compiled list seems exist — yet.

We’ve got the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s list of local restaurants that serve only sustainable fish — but doesn’t list sustainable seafood restaurants in the L.A. area like Border Grill and is limited to the nonprofit’s unique program.

We’ve got the Sustainable Sushi blog‘s short list of sustainable sushi restaurants — but that list is by no means complete, and none of the restaurants on the list are in L.A.

That’s why I’m hoping a new website called Fish2Fork will become a complete database. Fish2Fork ranks restaurants based on their sustainable fish options, ranging from five dead red fish skeletons for horrific to five blue fish for best in class. (via Treehugger)

Being new, though, the database isn’t robust yet, with only two restaurants listed for Los Angeles — but you can help add to the lists by recommending — or naming and shaming — local restaurants.

Ted Danson — who narrated The End of the Line, last year’s documentary about our collapsing fisheries — calls Fish2Fork “the greatest thing in the world”:

His description of the site’s a tad premature, but let’s hope Fish2Fork lives up to Ted’s expectations! The Bored to Death and Damages actor also plans to pen a book about our oceans, due out next year.

Earlier:
>> Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch Guide is an iPhone app!
>> Sushi fraud: When “tuna” actually means tummy trouble
>> Greenpeace’s sustainable seafood guide gives Trader Joe’s an F — again

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