Your role in ending overfishing
The more people who demand truly sustainable seafood from their retailers, the more incentive and pressure there is on industrial fisheries to provide sustainably caught fish.
Ask your retailer these three questions to help protect our oceans and fisheries.
- What is it and where was it caught? This is the minimum a supplier should be able to tell you and will help you avoid red list species.
- How was it caught? A lot of fishing is not selective. This is specially true for bottom trawling, which is highly destructive.
- Do you have a policy for sourcing only truly sustainable seafood? Retailers have a responsibility to be part of the solution, not the problem.
* If they cannot answer these questions, let them know you'll be buying your seafood from a retailer that can.
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