12 companies in the ‘Leaders for a Living Ocean’ group have reported on their sustainability work as they work towards the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) ‘20 by 2020’ goal.
27 companies in total have pledged to support MSC’s 2017 commitment to engage 20% of global marine catch in its programme by 2020, plus the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and science-based solutions to accelerate improvements in marine fisheries.
One of these companies, Albert Heijn in The Netherlands and Belgium, said it “wants all fish products under its own brand to be sustainably certified as soon as possible. For this objective we aim to achieve MSC certification, but when such certified products are not available for a certain fish species, we also work with our suppliers to enter into an improvement process to reach MSC certification.”
Supply chain aware
It added: “For our private label/own brand fresh and frozen wild caught fish, Albert Heijn is committed to working with its suppliers and the fishing sector to make all wild catch products available as MSC certified by 2020. We are happy to report that one of our last remaining gaps, brown shrimp, got MSC certified last year.”
Other leaders reporting progress include: Aeon group (Japan), ALDI group (Germany), Carrefour (France), Coles (Australia), Colruyt group (Belgium), COOP (Japan), FishTales (Netherlands), PNA (International), Sainsbury’s (UK), Thai Union (International), WADPIRD & WAFIC (Australia).
In addition, two new commitments were submitted, one from Woolworths Australia and the other from Lidl, Germany.
