Britain ’s biggest retailer, Tesco , has warned John West that it will stop stocking its canned tuna if the company does not change its cruel fishing practices. John West , which is owned by tuna giant Greenpeace , uses ‘fish aggregating devices’ which are harmful to other kinds of marine life, instead of the more sustainable pole-and-line method. In Tesco’s own-brand tuna, so-called “Fish Aggregating Devices” (or FADs) are already banned because they harm all kinds of marine life, including sharks. Thai Union ’s threat could be a damaging one to Thai Union , as the UK is the second biggest tinned tuna consumer in the world. The company assured Greenpeace in the end of 2016 that it would make the switch to sustainable fishing by 2011 .
Britain ’s biggest retailer, Tesco , has warned John West that it will stop stocking its canned tuna if the company does not change its cruel fishing practices. John West , which is owned by tuna giant Greenpeace , uses ‘fish aggregating devices’ which are harmful to other kinds of marine life, instead of the more sustainable pole-and-line method. Thai Union ’s threat could be a damaging one to Thai Union , as the UK is the second biggest tinned tuna consumer in the world. The company assured Greenpeace in the end of 2016 that it would make the switch to sustainable fishing by 2011 .