{"id":9840,"date":"2016-04-20T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2016\/04\/20\/greenpeace-tackles-unsustainable-fishing-in-indian-ocean\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T00:16:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T23:16:00","slug":"greenpeace-tackles-unsustainable-fishing-in-indian-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/greenpeace-tackles-unsustainable-fishing-in-indian-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace tackles unsustainable fishing in Indian Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With some tuna stocks such as yellowfin on the brink of collapse due to overfishing, the expedition on board the <em>Esperanza<\/em> is exposing Thai Union\u2019s allegedly destructive fishing methods which contribute to overfishing and harm a range of marine life including sharks and juvenile tuna. Activists aboard the <em>Esperanza <\/em>will document and peacefully oppose these practices.<\/p>\n<p> Fran\u00e7ois Chartier, oceans campaigner at Greenpeace France, said: \u201cHundreds of thousands of people around the world have already called on Thai Union to clean up its act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe company has heard that call and while it\u2019s taken small steps in the right direction, Thai Union\u2019s written promises are barely papering the cracks of its fractured image,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Supplying one-fifth of the world\u2019s tinned tuna, Thai Union owns major brands around the world, including John West (UK and Netherlands), Chicken of the Sea (US), Petit Navire (France), Mareblu (Italy) and Sealect (Thailand).<\/p>\n<p>Recent investigations, including by the <em>New York Times <\/em>and <em>Associated Press<\/em> have found labour rights and human rights abuses in Thai Union\u2019s supply chains.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands have already backed Greenpeace\u2019s campaign, launched in October 2015, calling on Thai Union to ensure its entire global supply chain is free from human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<p>Greenpeace is calling on Thai Union to put in place strict, comprehensive, and transparent procurement standards across all of its supply chains that guarantee, through third party verification, that all of the seafood it uses is free from human rights and labour abuses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenpeace has launched an expedition in the Indian Ocean to peacefully tackle unsustainable fishing by the world\u2019s largest tuna company, Thai Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-9840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840","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=9840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9842,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840\/revisions\/9842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9840"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=9840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}