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Tesco escapes last place in new tinned tuna league table with spectacular policy u-turn

Posted by jamie — 9 January 2011 at 10:40am - Comments
Tesco was bottom of our tinned tuna league table before a nifty u-turn
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Tesco was bottom of our tinned tuna league table before a nifty u-turn

Update, 9 March 2011: both Princes and Asda have committed to removing tuna caught using fish aggregating devices in combination with purse seine nets from their supply chains by 2014. Read more >>

Having got wind of our new tinned tuna league table (see below) and the fact that it was going to come last, Tesco has done a spectacular u-turn. After being the subject of a Greenpeace investigation, it has radically improved its policy on the fishing methods it will permit for its own-brand tuna.

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Tinned Tuna's Secret Catch

Last edited 18 February 2011 at 11:40am
Publication date: 
9 January, 2011

The UK is the second largest consumer of tinned tuna in the world, consuming the equivalent of more than 778 million tins in 2008 alone. Eating more tinned tuna than anyone else in Europe, the UK accounts for 36% of the EU import market.

Around 70% of the UK’s tinned tuna is sold through supermarkets and 30% through the catering sector. Retailers and suppliers in this country must therefore take considerable responsibility for the global environmental consequences of current fishing practices for tuna.

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Tuna league table 2011

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Find out which tinned tuna is the most environmentally friendly, and which brands are responsible for catching sharks, turtles and possibly even dolphins in their nets.

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