End Seafood Greenwash

I am writing to express my concern about the impact of your business’ sourcing of seafood. Scallop dredging is the <a href="http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v311/p1-14/">most damaging method of fishing</a> taking place in the UK’s seas and throughout the past several decades has been responsible for serious declines in the health of our marine environment. As well as <a href="https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/icesjms/fsv099">significant harm to the seabed</a>, bottom-trawling for scampi leads to the <a href="https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article-abstract/51/2/155/674474">wasteful discarding of large volumes of juvenile fish</a>. Scallops and scampi fisheries are <a href="https://www.mcsuk.org/goodfishguide/species/king-scallop/">red rated in a number of places</a> and yet claims of responsibility continue from those who source and profit from them. 
<p>Whilst I recognise that your company is involved in Fisheries Improvement Projects for at least one of these fisheries, these projects are not resulting in any changes in the way the fisheries operate on the water and appear to have lost any connection to the actual environmental condition of our seas - this is despite them operating for at least three years and <a href="https://crow-wrasse-edjy.squarespace.com/s/PUKFI-2-Scallop-PA-Final-250319.pdf">acknowledging these problems must be addressed</a>. Most shockingly the lack of progress is true even in addressing illegal and highly damaging fishing activity such as <a href="https://www.channel4.com/news/the-illegal-industrial-fishing-damaging-scotlands-great-barrier-reef">dredging inside marine protected areas</a> and ending the wasteful practice of <a href="https://www.openseas.org.uk/news/report-highlights-illegal-discarding-in-scampi-industry/">discarding dead fish at sea</a></p>
<p>I am writing to ask that you, </p>
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<li>Ensure that any scallops or scampi your company is involved in selling or processing can be traced back to the specific trip-level locations at sea where they were caught and that this information is included in any sales packaging</li>
<li>Require that any scallops or scampi your company is involved in selling or processing are not dredged or trawled from sensitive marine environments or sourced from fisheries involved in illegal activity. </li>
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I believe these actions are reasonable and achievable. At a time when we are in both a climate and biodiversity crisis, these actions are the very least you can do to prevent things becoming even worse in our seas.