Seafood

Supermarkets have a powerful, unique role to play in turning around the crisis facing our oceans by ensuring their customers quality fish from sustainable fisheries for years to come. Sustainably harvested seafood can become the market norm. But, it needs to start at the seafood counter where the public buys their groceries.

The Greenpeace seafood campaign is all about helping the fish and ecosystems that are threatened the most. We are encouraging supermarkets to remove the worst products (our red list species (link)), including those species caught using illegal or highly destructive fishing methods such as pirate fishing, bottom trawling or contribute to high levels of bycatch.

We are also encouraging supermarkets to help customers make smart decisions when purchasing seafood. They can help customers by labeling all seafood with information such as country of origin, whether the seafood was wild-caught or farmed, and the type of fishing gear or farming technique used.

Supermarkets must have a sustainable seafood policy that ensures that all of the seafood they sell is sustainable and “green.”

In the last 50 years, 90% of top fish stock predators have been lost. Experts predict if current trends continue global fisheries could collapse in the next 50 years. Act now to stem the tide and set a new course for healthy oceans and sustainable seafood.

Ocean protection starts with all of us. We need to succeed because our oceans are in serious trouble and need our help to survive.