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The NGO took advantage of the first African Conference on tuna, which brings together the Government of Côte d’Ivoire, and representatives of the professional network on 25 and 26 September in Abidjan, to publicize its ranking of the top ten brands of canned both these manufacturers and their potential customers.
FRANCE CONSUMED 62,800 TONS OF CANNED TUNA A YEAR
Tuna going to disappear? It is certain that we eat too much: 4.5 million tonnes per year, nine times more than in the 1950s in France, it sells 62,800 tonnes of canned tuna per year, representing a market of 535.5 million euros
The King Tuna, red -. enriches the sushi restaurants – has led in recent years to great fights on the part of NGOs to environment until strict quotas are imposed and allow him to show signs of recovery. Today it is the turn of his cousins -albacore (or yellowfin), skipjack (or bonito), bigeye tuna (or bigeye) – to be at risk of decline. It is on them that palmares Greenpeace focuses.
AN EFFICIENT FISHING TOO
On 10 raw tuna brands present on the French market stalls, Greenpeace believes the company Eckmühl lighthouse is the one that has the most virtuous practices to the extent that it sources only tuna caught by pole or line behind. Only downside: the choice of species. Certainly, it does not use yellowfin Atlantic – the most endangered population – but it sells mostly yellowfin in the Indian Ocean, which is currently too removed to be able to reproduce sustainably. U system, which is second in the standings, pick in the skipjack tuna stocks that are doing better.
These two brands are followed by Carrefour, Auchan, Intermarket, Constable, Hot sauce, Small Ship, Casino. “ The supply of major brands is essentially a destructive fishing practice” , using “a device for concentrating fishing” , laments Greenpeace. Finally, Leclerc ranks last for not having responded to the survey.
Small Vessel challenged his severe classification by the NGO. “The commitment to sustainable fishing is one of the historical values of the company, since the creation of Etablissements Paul Paulet in 1932,” protested the company. It disputes from his fish caught with the technique of fishing aggregating devices (FADs), which represents 65% of its supply as it not almost all, as indicated by Greenpeace.
SHARKS AND TURTLES RELEASED DYING
What is wrong with these we now famous DCP? Their effectiveness. They attract large predators attracted by the small fish that aggregate below and leave them little chance of escape. Whether they derive deep sea FADs are equipped with GPS beacon and most modern state with an echo sounder biomass that revolves around them. The fishermen then have just come up with seines several kilometers long to catch all marine species.
This technique was developed in the tropical fishing is not Selective: juvenile tuna, sharks, turtles, rays are discarded overboard dying as environmentalists when Small Ship provides training its sailors to release alive water
DCP. in any case have undergone rapid development in the 1990s French tuna fleets and especially Spanish – the two largest of the European Union – have adopted in the Indian Ocean off the coast of West Africa. “ There is no supervision of tec h Picnic FADs, fishers the s bite them reports François Chartier, in charge of ocean campaign in Greenpeace. The s Spaniards engage in true industrialization: they drop in the Indian Ocean several hundreds of DCP they both Transportation ent in dedicated ships. “
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