Sustainable Seafood Coalition
The new SSC website is now live! Visit us at sustainableseafoodcoalition.org
Major seafood businesses who are frustrated with the lack of progress to overturn the practice of discarding edible fish at sea have joined our Sustainable Seafood Coalition.
SSC members have voluntarily decided to sell seafood that is currently underutilised or discarded and to encourage consumers to eat a wider variety of sustainable seafood.
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Scottish MEP says ClientEarth has the solution to Common Fisheries Policy disaster
Scottish Member of the European Parliament (MEP), and Senior Vice President of the European Parliament Fisheries Committee, Struan Stevenson says ClientEarth’s Fishing Credits System is the solution to the current problems with the Common Fisheries Policy and explains how the system works.
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ClientEarth and Fish Fight
ClientEarth has been working with Channel 4 and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on the Fish Fight campaign. As part of this work we produced a report that was used to show the supermarket Tesco, that they cannot legally put misleading claims on supermarket seafood. Our report Environmental claims on supermarket seafood will be featured on Channel 4 on Thursday night, 12th January 2011.
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Reforming the European common Fisheries Policy
European fish stocks are in crisis; in some areas over 80 per cent the stocks are overfished. Scientists, environmentalists, fishermen and EU Member States agree that the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy is not working. The European Union has signalled that they are ready for ambitious changes to improve the Common Fisheries Policy, and ClientEarth has been working to help achieve this.
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Environmental claims on supermarket seafood
In our report Environmental claims on supermarket seafood we found that claims such as ‘sustainably sourced’; ‘protects the marine environment’; and ‘responsibly farmed’ were misleading or unverified on 32 supermarket seafood products out of 100 examined. 22 of these claims were misleading, based on information provided by the retailers on the source of the products. For the further 10 no evidence has been provided to allay our concerns that they are misleading.
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ClientEarth and bluefin tuna
Bluefin tuna is one of the most iconic species of fish in our seas; individual fish weigh in at up to 650kg and live for up to 40 years. Unfortunately for the tuna, the bluefin’s red flesh is highly prized by the sushi industry which has resulted in individual fish selling for up to £250,000 in Japan. Demand for this valuable fish, combined with a lack of effective regulation, has meant the bluefin tuna is now one of the most endangered species of fish.
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