Sustainability scorecard reveals slip in Canadian grocery stores' seafood sustainability practices, with only two labeling farmed salmon correctly
Most major grocery chains in Canada fail to label their salmon products as “farmed,” according to a new sustainability report.
“For healthy oceans, we need grocers to be addressing all seafood sold in their stores, not just some.” Grocers FCL, Loblaws and Walmart were found applying “self claims of sustainability” to their own private-label products. Costco was the only brand to apply “credible certification claims on its packaging,” the report found.
Outside of salmon farms, climate change, habitat degradation and overfishing are all leading to significant declines of wild species. Of the Fraser River’s 31 sockeye salmon populations, 11 are endangered, two are threatened and seven are designated as facing a special concern. Salmon farm industry groups, meanwhile, have pushed back against evidence salmon farms harm wild fish and point to their own body of research.
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