Friday, January 21, 2011

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The secret catch in Princes tuna

Princes: fibbing about its tinned tuna

Sharks and turtles are killed as well as tuna in Princes' nets. Make them use better fishing methods

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Hi there,

Sustainable fish and fishing methods have been in the news a lot lately, thanks to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's Fish Fight series on Channel 4.

He covered several of the issues we've been working on, graphically demonstrating the problems of fish discarded at sea and the bycatch of other marine life such as sharks and turtles. A Greenpeace investigation team even featured in the series, and if you missed it, you can still watch it online.

Just before Hugh's Fish Fight started, we published our new tinned tuna league table, showing which supermarkets and leading brands are using the most sustainable fishing methods and which ones are responsible for killing sharks and turtles, and possibly even dolphins in their tuna nets.

Princes is at the bottom for using one of the worst fishing methods around.

So please email Mike Easterbrook, director of Princes, demanding that his company use more sustainable fishing methods like pole and line.

While Sainsbury's, Marks & Spencer and Waitrose come out on top, Princes has performed abysmally. It uses huge purse seine nets coupled with fish aggregating devices (or Fads) which don't just lure in tuna, but sharks, turtles and other fish as well.

But before it was even published, our tuna league table produced results. Tesco got wind it had come last and made a rapid u-turn from its previous statements. It announced that, by the end of 2012, it aims to get 100 per cent of Tesco tinned tuna caught by pole and line, the most sustainable tuna fishing method.

Of course, Tesco needs to make good on this promise but it was enough to move it from the bottom of the league table, leaving Princes with the wooden fish knife.

Email Princes now and tell them to change their tuna.

Thanks for your support,

Jamie Woolley
Greenpeace UK

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