Documents

Supermarket Ranking Grid - May 2009

22 May 2009

Ranking retailers on seafood sustainability. May 2009 Scorecard.

Out of stock, Out of Excuses

19 May 2009

Greenpeace’s 2009 Supermarket Ranking evaluates Canada’s eight major supermarkets on their progress in providing Canadians with seafood that is sustainably caught and farmed. Efforts are being made by some retailers but others are ignoring their responsibilities, selling our oceans and themselves out of stock.

Out of Stock: Supermarkets and the Future of Seafood

17 June 2008

Oceans contain the planet's most diverse ecosystems and are home to an estimated 90 per cent of the Earth's living organisms, many of which are essential to human survival. Earth's oceans are in peril because global fishing operations take 2.5 times more fish and seafood than is sustainable. Ninety per cent of large, commercially valuable species such as cod, tuna and swordfish have vanished from the oceans, and 27 million tonnes of marine life are caught incidentally and thrown overboard dead or dying each year.

Greenpeace's Out of Stock: Supermarkets and the Future of Seafood documents the severe threat to the sustainability of fish and seafood and urges Canadian supermarkets to bear their responsibility for these stocks. Supermarkets, selling 63 per cent of the fish and seafood available for consumption, can play an active role in improving the industry's sustainability and in educating consumers by not selling the 15 species groups identified on the Greenpeace Redlist.

Sustainable Fisheries Survey Report by Léger Marketing

08 June 2008

Report by Léger Marketing of a survey conducted for Greenpeace on sustainable fisheries info in our supermarkets.

Greenpeace investigation: Japan's stolen whale meat scandal

15 May 2008

A four-month-long undercover investigation by Greenpeace uncovers some of the whaling industry's dirtiest secrets -- including embezzlement of whale meat from the taxpayer-subsidized programme.