The Fish 4 Ever range follows explicit guidelines having a sustainability questionnaire which is based on the various issues governing marine sustainability. It goes much further than dolphin-friendly tuna and addresses a far wider range of issues.
As Fish 4 Ever continually update their website we recommend you visit it for more in depth information on fish stocks and their sustainability criteria.
Fish 4 Ever Sustainability Points
1. Fish 4 Ever will not sell fish that are listed as critically endangered by the IUCN. They also consult with NGO – produced avoid lists and recommendations.
2. Fishing is seasonal - no fishing occurs in the breeding season and there is no active fishing of under-sized fish.
4. No dragnets are used. These can be up to 100 km long and will kill dolphins, whales, sharks, turtles and sea birds.
5. There is no damage to the ocean floor, for example, no deep sea trawling or bottom trawling and no damage to the marine environment.
6. There is near zero by-catch. Thanks to responsible fishing methods and equipment sea mammals and albatross are not caught whilst the tuna fishing is managed by the Earth Island Institute. Fish 4 Ever Skipjack Tuna is caught by line and pole method.
7. No major industrial boats or factory boats are used. All of our fish are caught with smaller sized community based fishing boats. We do not use long-lines, purse-seiners setting on
FADs or driftnets. We do not use bottom trawling or dredging.
Social Sustainability - A quick Checklist
- We support local and traditional fishing communities.
- We do not work with any fisheries that are the result of an unequal deal between poor countries and rich countries whereby the fishing villages in poor countries find they no longer have fish to fish, to process, to eat or to sell because it has been sold by contract by their government to one of our governments!
- We do not support sweatshop-type factories in developing countries with no labour rights, bad working conditions, poor standards of hygiene and a generally negative impact on the community where they are based. |
