About blinking time. Doesn't say whether they've banned all fish caught using beam trawling.
Be nice to see others follow suit.
Northern_Lad
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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 07 1:03 pm Post subject:
...I read this yesterday, but I got too wound up thinking about the millions of chickens they still abuse, and all the other carp they get up to.
Nice move, but soooooooo much more for them to do. (stop advertising for one. The amount of times I've switched over due to their adverts with kids 'singing' and then forgotten to switch back... )
I'm sure they sell a significant amount of monkfish so hopefully it'll have a bit of an impact somewhere. Wonder if any of the other majors have adopted this policy, anyone care to email Waitrose, sainsburys etc to see where they stand on this?
Northern_Lad
Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 14210 Location: Somewhere
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 07 1:06 pm Post subject:
tahir wrote:
Little steps....
I'm sure they sell a significant amount of monkfish so hopefully it'll have a bit of an impact somewhere. Wonder if any of the other majors have adopted this policy, anyone care to email Waitrose, sainsburys etc to see where they stand on this?
Lots of Monkfish? From Asda? Their target market thinks recycled fish-fingers pre impregnated with ketchup is the hight of sofistication!
Lots of Monkfish? From Asda? Their target market thinks recycled fish-fingers pre impregnated with ketchup is the hight of sofistication!
Irrelevant, in the scheme of things if they sell a single monkfish a day at each of their stores that's ever so slightly a lot more than my fishmonger Tony....
Bernie66
Joined: 14 Jan 2005 Posts: 13967 Location: Eastoft
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 07 1:16 pm Post subject:
Emailed Sainsburys through their site. Wait and see if its important to them at all.
Bernie66
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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 07 1:20 pm Post subject:
And Tesco
Penny Outskirts
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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 07 1:34 pm Post subject:
Waitrose contact if you have an e-mail ready to send
Joined: 14 Jan 2005 Posts: 13967 Location: Eastoft
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 07 1:43 pm Post subject:
Tis done
hedgewitch
Joined: 26 Nov 2005 Posts: 5834 Location: Daft wench GHQ
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 07 1:51 pm Post subject:
Northern_Lad wrote:
tahir wrote:
Little steps....
I'm sure they sell a significant amount of monkfish so hopefully it'll have a bit of an impact somewhere. Wonder if any of the other majors have adopted this policy, anyone care to email Waitrose, sainsburys etc to see where they stand on this?
Lots of Monkfish? From Asda? Their target market thinks recycled fish-fingers pre impregnated with ketchup is the hight of sofistication!
Could be on for the McD/lapdancing and cider offer from the other thread, then
I'm suspicious of this and not sure it is a step in the right direction as I agree with NL that they probably sell very little. If that's the case, it could equally be seen as loosing a not very profitable line for a lot of good PR. And it would nicely back the chains that do sell more of this kind of fish into a corner at no, (or very little) cost to Asda.
not beeing funny but how els do you think you will be able to catch monkfish well any bottome dwelling fish for that matter as they dont just jump into your shopping baskit nowadays
yes i think consevation is an issue but not the ways you fish as it is the only practical means of catching the amount needed so you can all have your brain food
hay dont plow the feelds eather cos that is the same thing
but just like the national trust land you cannot touch there is also larg areas were you cant fish
Sparky, yes there is truth to what you say but it's also true that beam trawling has a huge impact on the sea floor. Any move to reduce it (and the amazing amount of "byctach" that it must entail has to be a good thing. Agree with HW, maybe they are doing it to have an effect on other retailers, if tit for tat actions by retailers lead to an improvement across the board we all win don't we?
beam trawlers dont realy have that much of a by catch compaird to dredgers witch do the same amount of damage but only target scollops there aloance of bycatch is 10% now i know the actual amount caught can exceed that by a large amount
meening thay would have to dump all the extra fish cought witch is now dead
so in turms of banning monk ban scoolops instead to show thay are hellping (thay wont do that as it is mor popular than monk and the proffit is grater)so i think it is just a poor attempt to look good
Interesting. I suppose at the end of the day we need to reduce:
a) the total amount of fishing
b) the amount of dead fish thrown back
c) the environmental impact of techniques used
Anything that makes even a bit of an impact on any of the above is I think welcome. The thing that kills me really is the amount of "over quota" or "bycatch" that has to be "returned", fat lot of good returning tonnes of dead fish to the sea eh?
And I don't really swallow the line that farming fish is sustainable either.