{"id":2204,"date":"2008-04-29T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T08:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2008\/04\/29\/greenpeace-protests-at-european-seafood-expo\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:35:20","slug":"greenpeace-protests-at-european-seafood-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/greenpeace-protests-at-european-seafood-expo\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace protests at European Seafood Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters covered the stands with fishing nets, chained themselves to the stands and put up banners saying &#8216;Time and Tuna running out&#8217;. A message was also broadcast through the exhibition halls&#8217; public address systems urging traders to buy only sustainably-caught seafood. The organisation is calling on the companies to stop trading in bluefin, yellowfin and bigeye tuna and other unsustainably caught tuna until stocks recover.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These companies are major players in the tuna industry and are jointly destroying tuna stocks by overfishing and using destructive fishing methods&#8221;, said Sebastian Losada, Greenpeace Spain Oceans Campaigner. &#8220;Blatant overfishing will lead to commercial extinction of many tuna stocks in the near future unless urgent action is taken.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tuna stocks are at a critically low level with too many vessels fishing for too few fish. High levels of bycatch of other marine life is a serious problem&#8221;, said Losada. &#8220;If the industry doesn&#8217;t shift towards sustainable seafood there will simply be no fish left to trade, and their businesses will be closed forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Wednesday, at the European Seafood Exposition in Brussels, 80 Greenpeace activists protested at the stands of five large tuna suppliers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","category-seafood"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions\/2206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}