Solutions

Greenpeace is calling on supermarkets to remove the most unsustainable seafood (from industrial fisheries and aquaculture systems) from their shelves and adopt sustainable seafood procurement policies based on ecosystem management principles and the precautionary approach.

Greenpeace is working internationally for the establishment of a global network of marine reserves covering 40 per cent of the world’s oceans. There is a growing body of scientific evidence that demonstrates that the establishment of large-scale networks of marine reserves are urgently needed to protect marine species and their habitats and could be key to reversing the decline of global fisheries.

Greenpeace is challenging the Aquaculture Industry on Sustainability. Due to the severe environmental and social impacts associated with industry development and expansion, we are calling for a moratorium on new site approvals as well as on increases in production for open net pen finfish operations. Greenpeace is also calling for a decrease in current production levels, and a move to closed containment systems within Canadian waters. Greenpeace believes that closed containment operations, shellfish aquaculture and industrial fisheries can only be sustainable if a truly ecosystem-based management approach is taken.

Greenpeace is working to stop lethal research of whales and ban commercial whaling once and for all, for though it has been 20 years since the global ban on commercial whaling came into place, sham scientific whaling continues in the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary