Blog: Oceans

John West - still in denial?

Posted by jossc — 22 August 2008 at 10:26am - Comments

John Worst - avoid their unsustainable tinned tuna

Update on tinned tuna, June 2009: how have the retailers have responded to our report?

We already know that John West's website contains plenty of corporate puffery. After all, this is the company that claims to "only purchase fish which is caught with no harm to the marine environment" but which came a dismal last in our sustainability league table of tinned tuna brands. Yes, John West truly is John Worst on tinned tuna.

Article tagged as: albacore, bluefin, bycatch, john west, oceans, skipjack, sustainable seafood, tuna, yellowfin

It's official: EU fishing policy is crazy

Posted by jossc — 14 August 2008 at 3:01pm - Comments

Norwegian coastguard video of the Shetland trawler Prolific dumping its catch in the North Sea

The crew of the Prolific discarding their catch

So at last the sheer waste involved in modern trawling has been captured on camera. Last week a Norwegian coastguard cutter filmed the crew of a Shetland trawler, the Prolific, openly dumping over 5,000 kg of cod and other dead white fish in UK waters. Now this footage is rightly causing a wave of revulsion in the media at the scale of unnecessary waste at a time of rapidly rising food prices and, ironically, when our own Prime Minister is telling us not to waste food.

Article tagged as: common fisheries policy, EU, ICES, marine reserves, prolific, trawling

John West: the worst on tinned tuna

Posted by jossc — 13 August 2008 at 11:10am - Comments
All rights reserved. Credit: John Novis/Greenpeace

Tinned tuna is big business - there's a can in almost everyone's cupboard. Here in the UK we can't get enough of it - we're the second biggest consumer in the world after the USA. Globally tuna exports are worth more than any other fish species, at around 2.7 billion dollars per year.

But there are big problems with the way tuna is caught. Our new briefing paper, Tinned Tuna's Hidden Catch, explains how large numbers of sea turtles, sharks and other fish are all being wiped out by the global tuna industry. And tuna is in trouble itself, with some species critically endangered by overfishing.

Article tagged as: albacore, bluefin, bycatch, league table, oceans, skipjack, sustainable seafood, tuna, yellowfin

John West: the worst on tinned tuna

Posted by jossc — 13 August 2008 at 11:10am - Comments
All rights reserved. Credit: John Novis/Greenpeace

Tinned tuna is big business - there's a can in almost everyone's cupboard. Here in the UK we can't get enough of it - we're the second biggest consumer in the world after the USA. Globally tuna exports are worth more than any other fish species, at around 2.7 billion dollars per year.

But there are big problems with the way tuna is caught. Our new briefing paper, Tinned Tuna's Hidden Catch, explains how large numbers of sea turtles, sharks and other fish are all being wiped out by the global tuna industry. And tuna is in trouble itself, with some species critically endangered by overfishing.

Article tagged as: albacore, bluefin, bycatch, league table, oceans, skipjack, sustainable seafood, tuna, yellowfin

Tinned tuna - a quick guide to fishing methods

Posted by jossc — 12 August 2008 at 1:00am - Comments

Purse seined tuna

Article tagged as: league table, oceans, sustainable seafood, tuna

Tinned tuna - a quick guide to fishing methods

Posted by jossc — 12 August 2008 at 1:00am - Comments

Purse seined tuna

Article tagged as: league table, oceans, sustainable seafood, tuna

Jellyfish and chip supper?

Posted by jossc — 8 August 2008 at 10:46am - Comments

Mauve stinger and chips, anyone?

A new report by the Institute of Marine Sciences at the National Research Council in Barcelona links the rapid growth of jellyfish populations throughout the world's oceans to overfishing of their natural predators such as tuna and as a result of global warming.

Article tagged as: audio, jellyfish, oceans, raymond blanc, seafood see life, sustainable seafood

Jellyfish and chip supper?

Posted by jossc — 8 August 2008 at 10:46am - Comments

Mauve stinger and chips, anyone?

A new report by the Institute of Marine Sciences at the National Research Council in Barcelona links the rapid growth of jellyfish populations throughout the world's oceans to overfishing of their natural predators such as tuna and as a result of global warming.

Article tagged as: audio, jellyfish, oceans, raymond blanc, seafood see life, sustainable seafood

Ending whaling - the solution to climate change?

Posted by jossc — 4 August 2008 at 12:14pm - Comments
Ending whaling - the solution to climate change?

Interesting news in from Japan (where as you'll remember, the government recently took the bizarre step of prosecuting two of our activists for exposing corruption between their own Fisheries Agency and whaling company Kyodo Senpaku).

Whale expert and former councellor for the Institute of Cetacean Research (in whose name the commercial whaling operation which masquerades as 'scientific reseach' is officially conducted), Shigeko Misaki, has written a blistering letter to the Japan Times demanding that all whaling in the Southern Ocean should be ended:

Article tagged as: climate change, japan, japanese fisheries agency, southern ocean, whaling

Whale meat scandal updates

Posted by jossc — 30 July 2008 at 11:48am - Comments

Get the latest updates on the whale meat smuggling scandal

Updates on the scandal involving the corrupt and powerful Japanese whaling industry (which is funded with taxpayers' money). Plus ways in which you can support our two activists, Junichi and Toru, who are still awaiting trial for intercepting a box of stolen whale meat, and delivering it to the police.

Full story on Greenpeace International website »

Article tagged as: japan, japanese fisheries agency, southern ocean, whale meat, whaling
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