This move ensures that 100% of Sainsbury’s tuna across all products is responsibly sourced. Sainsbury’s fresh, frozen and canned tuna is already line caught.
All of Sainsbury’s ready meals, sandwiches, pate, dips, salads, sandwich and potato fillers and sushi containing tuna will now be sourced using the more selective fishing method, which, according to the retailer, ‘practically eliminates bycatch of other species’.
Sainsbury’s moved all of its own label canned tuna to pole and line caught in 2009, and as a result was rated No1 by Greenpeace for responsible sourcing.
Tuna is the third biggest-selling fish in Sainsbury’s.
Source: Sainsbury’s
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