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These fish are on the Greenpeace International Seafood Red List because they have a very high risk of being sourced from unsustainable fisheries or unsustainable aquaculture operations. The table below provides a simple overview of the main reasons for red-listing species 1. For more information about each species, please check the Greenpeace International Seafood Red List. For more information about the criteria, please see the documents Red Grade Criteria for Unsustainable Fisheries and Red Grade Criteria for Unsustaiable Aquaculture.

  CATCHES VULNERABLE SPECIES USES DESTRUCTIVE FISHING METHODS OVERFISHING USES UNSELECTIVE FISHING METHODS PIRATE FISHING

CATCHES VULNERABLE SPECIES
Fishery exploits species that are highly vulnerable to fishing pressure and/or unintentionally catches and kills other endangered species like turtles, sharks or dolphins.

USES DESTRUCTIVE FISHING METHODS
Fishery uses methods that damage the seabed or impact on sensitive habitats.

OVERFISHING
The stock is overfished and/or management of the stock is failing to protect it adequately

USES UNSELECTIVE FISHING METHODS
The fishery uses methods that capture high amounts of fish that are thrown back into the sea dead or dying or it catches high amounts of immature fish.

PIRATE FISHING
In fisheries for this species pirate fishing (illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing) occurs. 2

Anglerfish or monkfish or goosefish          
Atlantic cod

         
Atlantic halibut

         
Atlantic salmon

         
Common sole

         
Eel

         
European plaice

         
Greenland halibut

         
Haddock

         
Hake

         
Hoki or blue hake or blue grenadier
         
Marlin

         
Orange roughy or deep sea perch
         
Patagonian toothfish or Chilean seabass          
Red fish or rockfish

         
Sharks

         
Skates and rays

         
Swordfish

         
Tropical shrimp/prawn

         
Tuna - main market species
         

Notes:

(1) The table above refers to the red-grading criteria for wild-caught fisheries only. Please check the species page in the Red List for more information about aquaculture issues.

(2) Pirate fishing does not lead to red-grading according to the Greenpeace 'red-grade' criteria for unsustainable fisheries, however no fish caught by owners and/or operators of vessels engaging in IUU (illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing) should be traded or sold. Please visit the pirate fishing pages and the Greenpeace 'red-grade' criteria for unsustainable fisheries for more details.

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