Activists canvassed the area outside the store with a large banner reading
“Don’t Buy, Don’t Sell Redlist Fish,” handed out information leaflets to
customers and set up a 10-foot tuna skeleton replica. Another banner was raised to target the store directly, reading “Safeway: The Way to Extinction.”

“Greenpeace is at Safeway today to let consumers know that Canada’s supermarkets are major accomplices in ocean destruction,” said Jessie Schwarz, a Greenpeace spokesperson. “We are asking customers to help us convince Safeway to stop selling Redlist fish and start selling sustainable seafood.”

The Redlist was developed by Greenpeace and includes 15 species that are
unsustainably fished and farmed.

The action follows the release of a new Greenpeace report entitled Out of Stock, Out of Excuses: Ranking retailers on seafood sustainability. The report ranks Canada’s major grocery chains on their sustainability efforts under seven
criteria, including the quality of their seafood policies and the number of
Redlist species sold. The Safeway chain received the second lowest ranking in
part because it has no sustainable seafood policy. Greenpeace delivered a copy
of the ranking report to the store’s manager.

“Safeway is low on the Greenpeace ranking because it refuses to take action to
protect our fish stocks from commercial extinction,” said Schwarz. “We want
their customers to help us stop Safeway from fishing our oceans to death.”

Today, day five of the Greenpeace confrontation campaign against major
supermarket chains, also included activities in Hamilton, Ont., and Chicoutimi,
Que. During the campaign, activists will challenge store management at grocery
outlets in 19 cities in five provinces. So far, at least seven Greenpeace
activists have been arrested. Successful activities have also been conducted in
Victoria, Kelowna and Nelson, B.C.; North Bay, Peterborough and Kingston, Ont.; and Trois-Rivières, Victoriaville and Rimouski, Quebec.

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Editor’s Note:

A backgrounder and the full Out of Stock, Out of Excuses report are available at the end of the news release on the Greenpeace press centre: www.greenpeace.ca/press

The 15 Redlist species are: Arctic surf clams, Atlantic cod, Atlantic haddock, Atlantic halibut, Atlantic salmon, Atlantic sea scallops, Chilean seabass, Greenland halibut, New Zealand hoki, orange roughy, sharks, skates and rays, swordfish, tropical shrimp and prawns, and tuna.

For more information, please contact:
Raina Delisle, Media Relations Officer, (250) 891-7246 (on location in South Surrey)
Jessie Schwarz, Campaign Spokesperson, (778) 227-6458 (on location in South Surrey)