Blogposts tagged 'Sushi'

Is a small step for sushi a great leap for tuna-kind?

Posted by Willie - 14 April 2010 at 9:33pm - 0 Comments

For many people it seems that 'tuna' is synonymous with 'sushi'. And there's certainly no doubt that the demand for high quality tuna to feed the fashionable sushi restaurant demand has had a devastating impact on some tuna populations. None more so than bluefin tuna.

Both the Atlantic and Southern bluefin species are in dire trouble, trouble caused by overfishing, to satisfy a demand for the fatty red belly meat in expensive sushi, sold as 'toro'. It's a demand that has led to a fishing frenzy, in places like the Mediterranean , over the past few decades. It's a frenzy that has trampled over artisanal fishing methods and harvested bluefin tuna with little or no regard to the scientific advice, or the law. They are fisheries that have been so spectacularly mismanaged, it's not even laughable.

Article tagged as: bluefin, sushi, tuna

Limited edition sushi*

Posted by Willie - 14 July 2009 at 12:02pm - 0 Comments

*Bluefin sushi will only be available for a limited period because bluefin will soon be extinct. © Ultimate Holding Company / Greenpeace

Bluefin tuna is an endangered species, and it's the oceanic equivalent of a tiger, rhino, or panda - yet it is still being served up as expensive sushi in restaurants. In London alone, there are dozens of venues serving up bluefin, although the celebrity hang-out Nobu is probably the most high-profile culprit.

Our politicians have failed on bluefin tuna, they ignore the scientific warnings, and continue to set quotas that are then ignored by the fishermen.

If we want to stop bluefin from becoming extinct in just a few years then we need to take action now.

Article tagged as: bluefin, endangered species, moshi moshi, msc, nobu, soseki, sushi, sustainable seafood, tuna

Knee-deep in corned beef and sushi

Posted by frances-yms - 9 June 2009 at 3:46pm - 0 Comments

Frances puts her corned beef to one side for a momentFrances puts her corned beef to one side for a momentFrances volunteers for our biodiversity campaigns and is next up in the blog relay, a whistle-stop tour of Greenpeace staff here in the UK. Click here to catch up on the other entries.

People sometimes ask me why I volunteer for Greenpeace. Well, let's see what I do and why.

As a volunteer on the forests and oceans campaigns, my job involves doing investigative research work. The work is pretty varied, and is a combination of doing desk research and getting out and about in the big wide world.

For example, as part of our Amazon work, I've been visiting various supermarkets, looking at whether we can link the beef products on their shelves back to companies who we know are involved in destroying the rainforests. Today, cattle farms occupy nearly 80 per cent of all deforested land in the Brazilian Amazon. Many of the beef products from these farms are sold on the world market. The Amazon doesn't belong on a supermarket shelf labelled as corned beef!

Article tagged as: amazon, blog relay, cattle, nobu, sushi, tokyo two, tuna, whaling

London Sushi Awards ban endangered bluefin

Posted by sarah - 7 October 2008 at 5:06pm - 5 Comments

sushi award entries by Thomas Lu

Entries at the Milan Sushi Awards earlier in the year (image by Thomas Lu, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0)

Working at Greenpeace often means that I find myself in some unusual places - inside a nuclear power station, atop an aeroplane or in a palm oil factory. But I certainly never expected to find myself at an international sushi awards ceremony.

Article tagged as: bluefin, seafood see life, sushi, sustainable seafood, tuna

Endangered, but still on the menu

Posted by Willie - 26 September 2008 at 12:39pm - 0 Comments

Bluefin tuna

Catch them while you can - endangered bluefin tuna © Greenpeace/Gavin Newman

When we said a few weeks ago that customers of the Nobu chain of high-class sushi restaurants wouldn't be aware that the bluefin tuna being served there was endangered, we never thought they would respond to our complaint in quite such a literal manner. But now diners can clearly see which dishes include tuna from endangered stocks because it's written on the menu. As reported in the Sunday Telegraph and as a result of Greenpeace's investigative work and subsequent discussions with Nobu, customers at the up-market eatery will now be able to clearly identify the endangered species on the menu.

Article tagged as: bluefin, nobu, oceans, sushi, sustainable seafood, tuna

Just say Nobu

Posted by Willie - 7 September 2008 at 8:48am - 0 Comments

Nobu - still selling endangered bluefin tuna

The Sunday Telegraph reports this morning that, thanks to Greenpeace investigative work*, we now know that London’s Nobu restaurants, among the capital’s favourite celebrity hangouts, are serving up endangered bluefin tuna as sushi.

Article tagged as: bluefin, nobu, sushi, sustainable seafood, tuna
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