Search | Greenpeace Canada

The term ‘pirate fishing’ can bring to mind images of parrots, gold and adventure, but pirates of today are known for only one attribute: their ability to fish illegally and exhaustively. Pirate fishing fleets – more precisely known as Illegal...

Threats: Bycatch

Publication | April 8, 2008 at 19:02

Industrial size nets measuring up to two kilometres in diameter (such as gillnets, bottom trawls, or purse seines) catch anything that is larger than the size of their mesh, while longlines dangle thousands of baited hooks in the water,...

Our campaigns
Oceans
Supermarkets
Resources
Threats: Commercial whaling

Threats: Commercial whaling

Publication | April 8, 2008 at 19:15

The cycle of greed behind the global whaling industry has driven one whale population after another towards oblivion. It is still not known if some species will ever recover, even after decades of protection. The blue whales of the Antarctic are...

Our campaigns
Oceans
Supermarkets
Resources
Threats: Overfishing

Threats: Overfishing

Publication | April 8, 2008 at 19:18

One of the biggest threats to marine ecosystems today is overfishing. Our appetite for fish and seafood is exceeding the oceans’ ecological limits with devastating consequences for marine ecosystems, food security and the livelihoods of the...

Our campaigns
Oceans
Supermarkets
Resources
Threats: Trashing our oceans

Threats: Trashing our oceans

Publication | April 8, 2008 at 18:35

Millions of tonnes of trash are swirling around our oceans, originating from land and sea. Plastic is believed to constitute 90 per cent of all garbage found in our oceans, with every square kilometre of ocean containing almost 120,000 pieces of...

Our campaigns
Oceans
Supermarkets
Resources
Threats: Aquaculture

Threats: Aquaculture

Publication | April 8, 2008 at 18:38

Aquaculture as it is currently practiced is not the answer to depleted wild fish stocks. On the contrary, the booming global aquaculture industry is seriously threatening marine and freshwater ecosystems and undermining food security across the...

Ask Clover Leaf to switch to ocean-friendly tuna

Page | March 26, 2012 at 14:12

Clover Leaf must act now to guarantee responsibly sourced tuna for its customers and stop canning tuna from fisheries that waste other marine life.

Healthy tuna and healthy oceans

Page | June 1, 2011 at 12:37

Overexploitation plagues our oceans. Species of all shapes and sizes are taken out and marine communities are devastated. Tuna are not immune: certain kinds of tuna are some of the hardest hit. Across our oceans, 90 per cent of large, predatory...