Greenpeace places enormous fish skeleton on roof of C1000 head office

The banner below states: ‘C1000, stop selling unsustainable seafood, that makes a difference!’ The slogan used by C1000 in their commercials, ’That makes a difference!’ would be especially true if they would stop selling unsustainable seafood. Greenpeace demands that C1000 stops selling endangered pecies like North Sea cod immediately, and starts drawing up a sustainable seafood policy.
Femke Nagel, head oceans campaigner of Greenpeace, Netherlands says: “It is outrageous that C1000 continues to sell endangered seafood species. Other supermarkets have removed endangered seafood from their assortment but C1000 even advises its customers to eat swordfish for Christmas. It’s not only that the swordfish itself is endangered; the type of fishery used to catch swordfish also causes substantial bycatch of endangered sharks, albatrosses and turtles.”
From March this year Greenpeace is asking supermarkets to adopt and implement sustainable seafood policies. Endangered seafood species should be removed from the supermarket shelves, together with those fished and farmed using environmentally destructive methods. (1)
In the meantime consumers have supported Greenpeace, with more than 100,000 emails sent through the website www.maakschoonschap.nl. C1000 stores still sell a lot of unsustainable seafood like North Sea cod, sea wolf, Atlantic redfish, yellow fin tuna and tropical shrimp. While many other supermarkets have already removed unsustainable seafood species from their stores, C1000 has not taken any visible steps in the right direction.

Dirk van den Broek, where Greenpeace activists protested in September, claims to have removed Baltic cod and swordfish. Jumbo has removed redfish, whiting and swordfish. Albert Heijn, Sligro Food Group (aka Em-Te and Golff) and Super de Boer have taken the next step and are working on transparent sustainable seafood policies. (2)
Worldwide, up to ninety percent of the stocks of large predatory fish such as tuna, cod and swordfish have disappeared since 1950. Scientists predict that if the current types of fisheries do not change, in forty years there will be no edible fish left in the sea. Greenpeace demands that all supermarkets take active steps towards a sustainable seafood policy. Because supermarkets buy seafood from all over the world they can take a conscious decision to buy seafood from sustainable farms or types of fisheries. In addition, more protection is needed to give marine life the chance to recuperate. This is why Greenpeace urges governments to create a network of marine reserves.  

[1] Seafood that should be removed from the supermarkets, according to Greenpeace’s advisors:
Hake (European and Argentinean), Halibut (Atlantic), Cod (Atlantic), Marlin, Eel (European and farmed), Redfish (Atlantic), Sardines (Mediterranean), Plaice (North-East Atlantic), Sole (North-East Atlantic), Tuna (blue fin, yellow fin, big-eye), Tropical shrimp (wild and farmed), Whiting (North-East Atlantic), Salmon (wild, Atlantic), Monkfish (Atlantic), Sea wolf (Atlantic), and Swordfish.

[2] For the latest developments visit our website www.maakschoonschap.nl