While organizations like Greenpeace spend their time attacking the seafood community for its supposed lack of sustainable practices, independent Government scientists have gone about their work assessing the actual sustainability story of American fish stocks and the verdict is in— “good news.”
It’s a little worn around the edges and the pages are a bit yellow but that’s no reason to get rid of it—right? Especially not when we can be eco-friendly and recycle it over and over and over again. It’s the Greenpeace playbook and its activists have cracked it open once again this time in Portugal.
IntraFish says “retailers seem to be reacting, rather than initiating action, to improve their seafood sustainability practices. And it’s that decision to follow rather than lead that has supermarket chains having to explain themselves in the wake of Greenpeace's rankings on how sustainable their seafood procurement practices are.”
So, the report is out and folks have had a few days to digest it. From the media and blog coverage there appears to be a genuine sense of… huh?