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Sustainable Seafood Markets

Out of Stock

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Greenpeace Canada Seafood and Fish Redlist

Find out more about sustainability and the fish we eat and buy from Canadian supermarkets with our Redlist.

Dowload the report "Out of Stock"

The seafood we find in our supermarkets does not grow on trees; it is sought out in every corner of the world’s oceans or raised in aquatic farms that are increasingly occupying our global shorelines. Industrial fleets are traveling into deeper, more distant waters, employing state of the art technology in search of many species that are on the brink of commercial extinction.

Currently, three-quarters of our commercially valuable fish are fully exploited or overexploited, and 90 per cent of large, predatory fish such as tuna and cod are already gone. Aquaculture has yet to provide a sustainable seafood solution, and in some cases exacerbates pressure on wild stocks. As the link between the consumer and the producer, supermarkets have a unique role to play in ensuring fish for the future.

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Recent Campaign Developments

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Out of Stock: The report

Today, Greenpeace issued a new report “Out of Stock: Supermarkets and the Future of Seafood,” that documents the severe threat to the sustainability of seafood. In the report, Greenpeace urges Canadian supermarkets to shoulder their share of the responsibility for the collapse of fish and seafood stocks by not selling the most threatened species, all of which are on a Greenpeace Redlist. In total, 15 species groups are flagged on the Redlist as those that should not be bought or sold.

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Pacific islands act to save tuna

Finally, some good news for tuna stocks and a first step towards protecting the Pacific Commons for future generations! Eight Pacific island countries have taken the most significant action ever to combat overfishing in the region.

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Brussels Seafood Expo - business closed!

"Ladies and Gentlemen your attention please, the Dongwon, Mitsubishi, Moon Marine, Azzopardi and Ricardo Fuentes stalls are now closed." That was one message being relayed over the public address sound system at the Brussels Seafood Expo today, as Greenpeace closed down the stands of five tuna suppliers - including the world's largest, Mitsibushi.

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