Tuna: on the brink of extinction

Tuna - one of the world's favourite fish - provides a critical part of the diet of millions of people across the globe. It is also the core of the luxury sashimi markets. But rampant over-fishing is pushing these incredible creatures to the brink of extinction; there simply aren't enough fish to sustain the world's voracious appetite for tuna.

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Tinned tuna industry polices itself, and it smells so fishy

There's a well-known model of how dodgy big business deals with campaigns against them. To summarise, it goes a bit like this: Company X gets some bad...
Posted by Willie - 24 May, 2010 - 16:17

Rainbow Warrior sails the Med to help bluefin tuna's holiday romance

An ex-bluefin tuna found during the Rainbow Warrior's previous visit to the Mediterranean in 2007 © Greenpeace/Care Imagine you are an Atlantic bluefin tuna....
Posted by Willie - 21 May, 2010 - 12:18

If tuna is too cheap, then stocks won't last

Brussels Expo: every sort of seafood imaginable - except bluefin I'm in Brussels, at the annual European Seafood Exposition. In the shadow of the improbably-...
Posted by Willie - 29 April, 2010 - 12:10 -

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

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...
Posted by Willie - 14 April, 2010 - 22:33

What’s fishy about Whiskas catfood?

Today, in my inbox, was a letter from Whiskas parent group, Mars, gleefully telling us Greenpeace folk how committed they were to sustainability, saving the...
Posted by Willie - 12 April, 2010 - 20:41 -

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