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 - a quick guide to fishing methods

Purse seined tuna Hook-and-line is a general term used for a range of fishing methods that employ short fishing lines with hooks in one form or another (as...
Posted by jossc - 17 November, 2008 - 11:51

London Sushi Awards ban endangered bluefin

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...
Posted by sarah - 7 October, 2008 - 18:06

Endangered, but still on the menu

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...
Posted by Willie - 26 September, 2008 - 13:39

Just say Nobu

The Sunday Telegraph reports this morning that, thanks to Greenpeace investigative work*, we now know that London’s Nobu restaurants, among the capital’s...
Posted by Willie - 7 September, 2008 - 09:48

John West - still in denial?

Update on tinned tuna, June 2009: how have the retailers have responded to our report? We already know that John West's website contains plenty of...
Posted by jossc - 22 August, 2008 - 10:26

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