Tell Supermarkets, No More Fishy Business!

You can help save the oceans every time you go grocery shopping. Consumers buy half their seafood at supermarkets, yet most supermarkets don�t consider where the seafood they sell comes from or how it was caught. Destructive fishing practices and overfishing are two of the gravest threats facing our oceans, and experts predict if current trends continue, global fisheries will collapse in 40 years.

Take action � Flex your power as a consumer. Tell the largest U.S. supermarket retailers to adopt sustainable seafood policies, stop selling destructively fished seafood, and provide informative labeling so customers, like us, can choose the most sustainable seafood and avoid the most imperiled fish. Don�t delay, ocean protection starts with all of us.

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Dear Costco, Jeff Lyons, Aldi, Wyatt Howard, Winn-Dixie, Doug Owenby, A&P, Lauren La Bruno,

As a frequent shopper at supermarkets and an environmentally conscious citizen � I am writing to encourage your company to do its part to help save the oceans. Destructive fishing practices and overfishing are among the gravest threats facing our oceans today. A new report (www.greenpeace.org/seafood) by Greenpeace found that many supermarkets are not yet considering the sustainability of seafood they sell. Even those who have begun making an effort still stock large numbers of fish caught by damaging methods, and our oceans are paying the price. Be a leader in the supermarket industry by adopting sustainable seafood policies that will ensure all of the seafood you sell is sustainable and �green.� Remove the most imperiled seafood from your counters and provide customers with informative labeling so that we can choose the best, most sustainable seafood for our families. Supermarkets have a unique role to play in helping safeguard our oceans and ensuring consumers have plentiful, sustainable seafood in the future. If there is no demand for fish caught by pirate fishing, bottom trawling or with high rates of bycatch, these destructive methods will become a thing of the past and the oceans will slowly begin to heal, and become healthier and more productive. In the last 50 years, 90% of the stocks of large predatory fish have been lost. Marine experts predict if current trends continue global fisheries could collapse in the next 40 years. But, if we act fast to turn these trends around, then there is hope for seafood lovers and marine ecosystems alike. We owe it to future generations to leave them a world filled with all of the creatures in the oceans � fish, corals, whales, turtles and dolphins.

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Tell Supermarkets, No More Fishy Business!

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