Liverpool fish firms hit back at Greenpeace claims of threat to sea life
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Liverpool Echo] by Bill GleesonNov 5, 2014
After a lobby group has raised concerns that John West and Princes Foods are about to break their commitments to customers to stop using Fish Aggregation Devices Liverpool tinned fish firm John West has hit back at claims that it is backsliding on its commitment to bring an end to the use of controversial tuna fishing methods by the end of 2016.
Environmental lobby group Greenpeace has raised concerns that John West and Princes Foods, both of which are headquartered at Liverpool’s Pier Head, are about to break their commitments to customers to stop using Fish Aggregation Devices (FADs). FADs, it is claimed, fail to discriminate between species, resulting in the unnecessary deaths of marlins, rays, sharks and turtles.
Greenpeace says its campaign has resulted in more than 100,000 customers contacting the companies to urge them to stick to their original commitments.
A spokesman for John West told ECHO Business: “We are vehemently opposed to fishing practices that jeopardise threatened species...
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