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Stop overfishing or we’ll buy elsewhere, top UK fish firm warns European states
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The UK’s largest seafood processor is threatening to stop sourcing fish from the north-east Atlantic unless coastal states, including the UK and countries in the EU, reach a suitable agreement on managing populations this month.
Young’s Seafood has joined Tesco, Co-op, Princes, Aldi, Asda, Waitrose, Marks & Spencer and other retailers and suppliers in calling for urgent action from ministers to manage populations of mackerel, herring and blue whiting more sustainably.
For more than a decade, states fishing in the north-east Atlantic have been unable to agree quotas in line with sustainable limits set by scientists. The result has been a decline of all three populations. In total, catches have exceeded sustainable limits by 4.8m tonnes since
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