Auckland University Underwater Club

5:00AM Monday August 11, 2008
By Wayne Thompson

Popular eating fish such as snapper, hoki and tuna are in a Greenpeace guide aimed at persuading shoppers to avoid the most at-risk seafood species.

The “sad” fish from the Greenpeace campaign, which was launched to raise awareness of threatened species. Photo / Greg Bowker

The Red Fish guide was launched yesterday at Kelly Tarlton’s Underwater World in Auckland.

It is part of an international consumer campaign which Greenpeace says has already seen supermarkets throughout Europe and the United States refusing to stock unsustainable species.

Campaign manager Carmen Gravatt said all 12 species in the guide were at high risk of having been sourced from overfished stocks and caught using destructive fishing methods.

“New Zealanders have the power to help end the peril our oceans and fisheries are in. We are asking people to demand truly sustainable seafood from their retailer and use the guide.”

Greenpeace is calling for a global network of marine reserves covering 40 per cent of the oceans and for a cautious approach to managing fishing areas before the stock collapses.

Read more in The New Zealand Herald.

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