How did these fish end up on the Red List?

Página - diciembre 15, 2009

These fish are on the Greenpeace International Seafood Red List because they have a very high risk of being sourced from unsustainable fisheries or unsustainable aquaculture operations. The table below provides a simple overview of the key problems with the fisheries that catch these species.

						CATCHES VULNERABLE SPECIES Fisheries exploit species that are highly vulnerable to fishing pressure with no evidence that stocks can be maintained at a health level and/or unintentionally catches and kills other endangered species like turtles, sharks or dolphins. DESTRUCTIVE FISHING METHODS Fisheries use methods that damage the seabed or impact on sensitive habitats. OVERFISHING Many stocks are overfished and/or management of the stocks is leading to their decline UNSELECTIVE FISHING METHODS Fisheries use methods that capture high amounts of fish that are thrown back into the sea dead or dying or it catches high amounts of immature fish. PIRATE FISHING In fisheries for this species pirate fishing (illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing) is a major problem. ²
Anglerfish or monkfish or goosefish
Atlantic cod
Atlantic halibut
Atlantic salmon
Common sole
Eel
European plaice
Greenland halibut
Haddock
Hake
Hoki or blue hake or blue grenadier
Marlin
Orange roughy or deep sea perch
Patagonian toothfish or Chilean seabass
Red fish or rockfish
Sharks
Skates and rays
Swordfish
Tropical shrimp/prawn
Tuna - main market species

Notes:

(1) Please check the species page in the Red List for more information about aquaculture issues.

(2) Any fishery that operates in areas, or target species, for which no conservation and management measures exist are graded red. In regions where management exists, but IUU fishing is known to be a major problem, Greenpeace does not red-grade all fisheries in the area, but highlights the issue so that more care is taken when sourcing fish to prevent the trade of fish caught by owners and/or operators of vessels engaging in IUU. Please visit the pirate fishing pages and the Greenpeace 'red-grade' criteria for unsustainable fisheries for more details.

View the Red List

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