…yes, they’re still doing that
April 28, 2010 Washington, DC – The marginalized public relations extortion campaign known as Greepeace’s retailer ranking effort has updated its list of store rankings and continues to make unreasonable demands while claiming credit for changes had no role in.“This is not a constructive campaign designed to help guide retailer’s efforts at seafood sustainability. It isn’t in its fourth iteration and it wasn’t in its first,” said John Connelly, President of the National Fisheries Institute (NFI.) “Responsible retailers are working hard at seafood sustainability and just because they don’t cave to all of Greenpeace’s demands doesn’t mean they’re not focusing on this issue.”Many of the fish Greenpeace wants removed from stores are certified as sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council while others are considered some of the best managed fisheries in the world. Greenpeace’s misleading campaign continues to be based on ideology and hysteria not sound science.“A sustainability program should be about a sourcing initiative not a public relations initiative. Just because a retailer isn’t talking about his or her program everyday in the press doesn’t mean they’re not doing anything,” said Connelly.Greenpeace’s unreasonable demands would have an immediate and measureable impact on the public health of all Americans. Doctors and dieticians say Americans should eat 39 pounds of seafood a year, or 2 to 3 seafood meals per week for maximum health benefit. Currently, Americans only eat 16 pounds. Even with that knowledge in hand, Greenpeace is still demanding stores remove almost half of all seafood from sale.
For more than 60 years, the National Fisheries Institute (NFI) and its members have provided American families with the variety of sustainable seafood essential to a healthy diet. For more information visit: www.AboutSeafood.com.###
Contact Information:
Gavin Gibbons(703) 752-8891ggibbons@NFI.org
Bear with me here of a moment as I review the last few days in the life of Alaska pollock-on Wednesday the fishery was cleared for Marine Stewardship Council recertification and then on Thursday Monterey Bay Aquarium (MBA) downgraded it from best choice to good alternative.
I'm sorry. Come again.
One day it's cleared for MSC certification and the next it's downgraded by MBA?
There were a load of fishy stories this year--
The master manipulators at Greenpeace have been unfurling banners and vandalizing property for years in the name of raising their profile in the media and raising funds from their supporters.
We've written a number of times about how Greenpeace uses selective reporting of the facts in pursuit of its radical agenda. One of the most glaring transgressions that Greenpeace and others us is to promote research findings that have either been debunked or even disavowed by the folks who initially published them.
It would appear Greenpeace thinks its potential donors have been living under a rock or haven't read a newspaper since July. Just yesterday the once-proud activist group stooped to sullying its name, again (read ahhhh-gain), in order to scare supporters into coughing up their hard earned cash.
This time it let supporters know that, "In a paper published in the leading scientific journal Science, marine biologists projected that most commercial fisheries would collapse by 2048 if current trends continue."
While biologists work on their assessment of the Alaska pollock stocks it is important to keep in mind a few facts. Since 1977 the U.S. has overseen Alaska pollock and made it a model of fisheries management for the world.
Despite ebbs and flows in the available biomass this fishery has remained the picture of responsibility. Here's another picture to keep in mind when people suggest otherwise:
Alaska Pollock 1990-2009
Last week Greenpeace's outgoing Executive Director admitted that the once-revered eco outfit lies as a matter of strategy, this week it... lied some more. According to reports, here it is along side the Environment and Animal Society of Taiwan suggesting tuna could be, "wiped out by 2048."
The Big Hollywood Blog has a Greenpeace feature today that is a must read. It includes a video clip from a BBC program in which the cornered Executive Director of Greenpeace squirms quite a bit before he admits that Greenpeace exaggerates and misreports as a matter of strategy.
If you've ever poked around the internet in search of Sushi sites you may have come across http://www.sustainablesushi.net/ . Sounds innocuous enough-a sushi lover helping other sushi lovers chose their favorites wisely, right?
Wrong.
