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News of the sustainable seafood campaign from New Zealand and around the world. We'll keep you posted as things continue to unfold.

Greenpeace activists strategically place rocks on the sea floor in order to stop destructive bottom trawling in Sweden magnify image

Marine reserves - just a stone's throw away

This week we have created a granite shield against bottom trawling in a fragile and ecologically important marine area in Sweden.

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Foodtown costing us our oceans

Our efforts to stop overfishing and destructive practices have expanded over the last few years from a focus purely on the fishing industry to now include seafood retailers. Retailers buy and sell huge quantities of seafood each year, and form important relationships with both their suppliers and their customers.

Juvenile bluefin tuna below the minimum landing size, landed by the unauthorised fishing vessel Yasar Reis II, being weighed on the quayside. Greenpeace demands the closure of the bluefin tuna fishery until its management is based on science, fishing capacity is decreased to sustainable levels and marine reserves are established to protect all the species’ breeding grounds. magnify image

Suicidal Tuna Fisheries

The Turkish government has set its own catch limit for the endangered Mediterranean bluefin tuna - in total disregard for internationally agreed quotas and scientific advice.

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Greenpeace Criteria for Sustainable Fisheries

March 13, 2009

What does sustainable mean? Which criteria defines if a fishery is sustainable?

In simple terms, a sustainable fishery is one whose practices can be maintained indefinitely without reducing the targeted species’ ability to maintain its population at healthy levels, and without adversely impacting on other species within the ecosystem – including humans – by removing their food source, accidentally killing them, or damaging their physical environment.

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Truly Sustainable Oceans - It's our right

August 18, 2008

Oceans cover three quarters of our planet; they drive our weather systems, are a ready made food source for billions on land and at sea and give sanctuary to a staggering 80 per cent of life on Earth. Lying beneath the waves are the highest of the world’s mountains (taller than any conquered by Sir Ed!) and the tallest waterfall. From great creatures such as the majestic blue whale, to the largest living thing on Earth – the Great Barrier Reef – to billions of tiny bacteria, our oceans are teeming with life.

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