Supermarkets selling fish that face extinction

The draft of a new Greenpeace report, which has been circulated to supermarkets, claims that chains such as Asda and Morrisons have no policies at all about which fish are caught in the most sustainable manner... The leaked report says that Asda still sells cod from the North Sea and the north-east Atlantic, even though scientists have been calling for a ban on fishing North Sea cod for the past three years.

A spokesman for Asda said: "As far I am aware all our fish - including the sharks which we used to sell but do not sell any longer - are from a sustainable source. In terms of them being endangered, I don't know where Greenpeace are coming from."

Given that there are no common/desirable fish available from 'sustainable' sources, it's hard to tell where ASDA is coming from. Given that most of the desirable fish stocks are somewhere between overfished, extremely rare, and all but extinct, it's surprising that fish is still on the menu.