Sustainable Seafood Markets A pile of freshly caught fish on-
board the 'Reiderland'. This German pair trawler is bottom
trawling for North Sea Cod. © Greenpeace / Christian Aslund
Greenpeace targets supermarkets across the country in an effort
to convince them to stop selling Redlist seafood—the most
destructively fished or farmed species—and develop policies for
greener seafood. As the middlemen between the oceans and the
consumer, supermarkets play a pivotal role in the destruction of
our oceans and have an opportunity to protect them. Each of the
21 species on Greenpeace’s Redlist is there because it meets a
strict set of criteria that evaluate stock status, species
vulnerability and the environmental impacts of fishing methods.
There are different sets of criteria for farmed and wild
species. Marine ecosystems have suffered a terrible toll from
decades of industrial fishing. About three-quarters of global
fish stocks are fished at capacity or overfished. Ninety per
cent of large, predatory species have di