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Whole Foods Market to Sell Only Sustainable Seafood

Beginning this Earth Day, April 22, Whole Foods Market will no longer carry red-rated wild-caught fish in its seafood departments. The move, which comes one year ahead of the company’s self-imposed deadline, makes Whole Foods Market the first national grocer to stop selling red-rated seafood.A Read More...

Safeway Unveils New Sustainable Sourcing Practice for Store Brands Tuna

Safeway’s store brands chunk-light canned tuna will be responsibly caught using free-school purse-seine methods, a more-sustainable method than using nets.The retailer will transition to the purse-seine method by the end of the year. Free-school tuna is caught by purse-seiners using traditiona Read More...

Target Promises To Sell Only Sustainable Seafood

Target announced it would sell only sustainable and traceable seafood in its stores by 2015, working with suppliers and transitioning store brands to meet the new goals as well.The initiative will be achieved through a partnership with FishWise to work with industry and vendor partners. It will appl Read More...

Safeway Earns Top Slot in Greenpeace's Sustainable Seafood Rankings

Safeway is the new sustainable seafood retail leader, according to the fifth annual Greenpeace seafood sustainability report, “Carting Away the Oceans.”Greenpeace described Safeway’s top ranking as a “shock move,” as it jumped three places from its No. 4 ranking last ye Read More...

Walmart and Safeway Expand Sustainable Seafood Policies

Walmart Stores Inc. and its Sam's Club subsidiary, as well as Safeway, recently announced expansion of their seafood sustainability policies.Walmart now requires that all of its wild and farmed seafood will be sourced from a third-party certified by the Marine Stewardship Council or the Global Aquac Read More...

Wegmans Imports Traceable Organic Salmon from Ireland

Wegmans Food Markets is importing traceable farm-raised organic salmon from Ireland to meet customer demand.The U.S. Department of Agriculture has not yet established a definition for organic seafood, which is why Wegmans is following European standards in the interim as more customers seek organic Read More...

Loblaw Offers Proprietary Sustainable Salmon

Loblaw introduced WiseSource Salmon to its stores, which is farmed Atlantic salmon raised in Canadian waters using a method called Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA).IMTA is a method of growing multiple and complementary organisms in proximity to provide healthier waters through a balanced Read More...