The world’s biggest seafood companies might seem to have a vested interest in healthy marine ecosystems and plentiful fish stocks. Many claim a commitment to biodiversity in their public messaging. Yet a new report shows they mostly lobby against environmental protections. InfluenceMap, a U.K.-based NGO, released the report on April 10. It assesses the biodiversity-related […]
  • The world’s most influential seafood companies and industry associations mostly lobby against environmental protections, a report by the U.K.-based NGO InfluenceMap found.
  • The report assesses the biodiversity-related lobbying efforts of a list of the 30 most influential seafood companies in the world and 12 of the main industry associations they’re members of.
  • The vast majority of the companies and industry associations engage in lobbying that’s misaligned with international biodiversity goals agreed to in a 2022 treaty.
  • Industry associations told Mongabay that they support science-based policy and that the report is flawed.

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  • 7empest@beehaw.org
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    12 hours ago

    Yup, this planet and whatever comes after would be a hell of a lot better. All this destruction for a made of thing known as money…