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.

The tuna retailers league table 2008

Last edited 9 January 2011 at 11:21am

Update: we've updated the tinned tuna league table for 2011. Who's at the top? Who's languishing at the bottom? Find out...

 

Find out more about this league table »

NB Three other major supermarket chains were excluded from the final table for the following reasons:

Waitrose: does not stock its own-label

Waitrose, Iceland and Somerfield were excluded from our league table

Tuna league table 2008: Morrisons

Last edited 6 August 2008 at 11:02am

Morrisons - 5th in our Tuna League Table

 

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After a slow start, Morrisons began to show a more serious commitment to sustainable fish sourcing, introducing a sustainable seafood procurement policy in 2006.

Canned tuna league table: methodology

Last edited 5 August 2008 at 5:35pm

Purse-seined tuna

The tuna retailers' league table has been compiled on the basis of data obtained from four sources:

Tuna league table 2008 Princes

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Tuna league - poor performance sees Princes in second last place

 

Tuna league table 2008: Tesco

Last edited 4 August 2008 at 5:40pm

Tesco's - no 6 in our tuna league table

Tuna league table 2008: ASDA

Last edited 7 January 2011 at 2:23pm

DA - 4th in the Tinned Tuna League Table

 

Tuna league table 2008: Co-op

Last edited 4 August 2008 at 4:24pm

Co-op - a creditable 2nd in the tinned tuna league