Are retailers and restaurants delivering on their sustainable seafood commitments?

Plenty of retailers and restaurants have made seafood sustainability pledges over the past several years. So are they living up to their promises?

We went back into our archives to find as many sustainable seafood commitments as we could to see how much progress is being made by retail and foodservice seafood buyers.

Here's what we found.

 

The pledge: In October 2011, UK retailer Sainsbury’s pledged to source only sustainable seafood by 2020.

Are they delivering? According to the retailer’s 20x20 Sustainability Plan - 2014 update (the most recent online), 2014 was the fourth consecutive year Sainsbury’s was largest UK retailer of Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) seafood, with sales of roughly £149 million ($188 million).

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