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Greenpeace calls for all supermarkets to stop selling beam trawled seafood
One year since Greenpeace challenged the sea food industry to clean up its act by dropping destructively fished species from their shelves,
a new report released today shows that major retailers in the UK are leading a revolution that is transforming the entire fishing industry.
In a Greenpeace league table released today, Marks and Spencer lead the way in sourcing sustainable seafood for the second year running,
closely followed by Waitrose. Sainsbury's take third position and have adopted vigorous new measures to stop the sale of some of some
of the most destructively fished species like skate.
Enormous progress has also been made by ASDA, who last year came bottom in the league table but have now taken joint 5th position because of
the introduction of a new policy and a commitment to sell only sustainably managed seafood within 3 to 5 years. Somerfield and Iceland come
at the bottom of this year's league table.
