Tuna giant Bolton says it will be '100% sustainable' by 2017, but how?
After the huge success of our UK tinned
tuna campaign, described by the Independent
as "one of the most successful environmental campaigns in years", it was great
to hear a big European tuna brand - Bolton commit to completely clean up its act.
Posted by simon clydesdale -
17 November 2011 at 1:22pm -
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Today we've released shocking footage of ocean
life dying in gruesome ways at the hands of industrial tuna fishers in the
Pacific Ocean. The footage was shot by a New Zealand helicopter pilot turned
whistleblower, who undertook aerial reconnaissance for tuna boats in the
Pacific in 2009.
Greenpeace New Zealand tell Sealord to change it's tuna - with a giant tin
After the success of the UK Change Your Tuna campaign, where all our major tinned tuna brands have now pledged to phase out the worst fishing practices, our New Zealand office has brought the campaign to Kiwi cans - upping the pressure on home-grown seafood giant Sealord this week, writes Nick Young of Greenpeace NZ.
Skipjack tuna caught by pole-and-line off Flores, Indonesia
The hubbub has now
died down since we announced that John
West’s
shift completed a clean sweep of change among major players in the
UK tuna market. And it’s been a week since Hugh
Fearnley-Whittingstall’s Fish Fight:
The Battle Continues reinforced this message, making people think
about how
we use and need to protect
the
extraordinary resources of the waters that dominate this globe.
Hugh starts the next crusade to save our seas in crisis in Fish Fight: The Battle Continues
Tonight Hugh
Fearnley-Whittingstall broadcast Hugh’s Fish Fight: The Battle Continues,
his follow-up to the influential BAFTA-winning Fish Fight series broadcast in
January. Hugh and his team have clearly been very busy over the last 6 months,
and not just in securing Hugh a swish new haircut.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall launches Fish Fight Europe outside the EU Commission, Brussels
Back in January, Channel 4’s Big Fish Fight season caused quite a splash. The undoubted star of the season was Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and his three Hugh’s Fish Fight programmes which brought the shocking facts behind the fish on our plates onto TV screens.
A Greenpeace activist cuts the lines on a fish aggregating device (FAD) - banned in pockets of the Pacific Ocean
You did it!
Today John West, the last of the major UK players to resist a shift to
sustainable tuna, finally committed to change their tuna. After more than 51,000
emails, a lot of negotiation, some interesting stickeringinitiatives,
and becoming utterly isolated amongst the UK industry, John West have changed
their policies.
GPNZ tinned tuna activists outside Sealord HQ in Auckland
Our campaign for
sustainable tinned tuna has gained huge public and media support in the UK, acclaimed
as ‘one of the most successful
environmental campaigns in years’ by The Independent. And now the campaign
to protect the Pacific by cleaning up tinned tuna has gone global...
Brilliant news! Morrisons has announced a new policy on
tinned tuna, committing to stop sourcing fish caught via destructive fishing
methods: this means that now all major UK supermarkets have now changed their policy towards being more sustainable. This leaves John West as the last major supplier left that still needs to change its tuna.
In 2006, we said Morrisons was the worst fish retailer. Now its failing on tinned tuna, just like John West
We had huge success earlier this
month getting both Princes and Asda to clean up their tinned tuna. But the battle
against the butchering of our oceans isn’t over: John West and Morrisons are
still not off the hook (ahem).
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