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In the Red - fish that are best left in the ocean

World's largest tuna destroyer

We chased it for 5 days, but as dawn broke over the Pacific this morning we finally confronted the biggest tuna fishing vessel in the world. The Spanish-owned and flagged tuna purse seiner "Albatun Tres" is known as a 'super, super seiner' and can net 3,000 tonnes of tuna in a single fishing trip. This is almost double the entire annual catch of some Pacific island countries.

Result! Swedish food chains stop selling unsustainable seafood

Almost all food chains have decided to stop selling seafood from unsustainable sources. This major market development is revealed in Greenpeace’s new league table ranking of the Swedish food chains. Since our last ranking in March there have been many changes - BergendahlsGruppen and Axfood now share first place, closely followed by ICA. Next come Vi and Lidl.

Pirate of the Pacific busted by Greenpeace

We caught an illegal tuna purse seiner (Queen Evelyn 168) in the Pacific Commons on Friday. This Philippines-flagged vessel was close to the transfer of tuna between her sister vessel and a refrigerated mothership. It was likely that transfer of fish at sea, involving this illegal vessel, was about to occur. But upon our arrival the vessels immediately separated and fled.

Greenpeace frees ocean life from Pacific longliner

The Greenpeace ship Esperanza freed tuna, sharks, marlin and an endangered sea turtle from a Taiwanese longliner on Saturday. The vessel was fishing in the Pacific Commons, the international waters we want to see protected as a marine reserve.