Change your tuna!

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The world's favourite fish – tuna – is in serious trouble.

While every major player in the UK tuna industry has improved how it sources tuna, the Australian industry drags the chain.

What was the key to the UK success? Consumer pressure! Tell the Australian tuna industry to also change its tuna.

Submit this letter and we'll send it to all brands who refuse to stop using destructive fishing methods (that's the bottom 8 brands of our canned tuna guide)

What should tuna brands do?

Stop using destructive fishing practices – especially the use of deadly fish aggregation devices (FADs)

Start using sustainable fishing practices – like the pole and line method

Stop selling at-risk tuna species like Yellowfin Tuna

Support the creation of marine reserves in the Pacific

How does your tuna brand rate?

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To the Managing Director,
 
I urge you to change your canned tuna. The entire UK canned tuna market, the second largest by volume in the world, has committed to sourcing 100% pole & line and FAD-free tuna.
 
Yet you are still trading in tuna from destructive fisheries. 
 
Please stop using tuna caught with fish aggregation devices (FADs). I don't want to buy tuna caught using fishing methods that result in the killing of turtles, sharks and juvenile tuna. The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) states that as much as 25% of the marine life landed is bycatch when FADs are used. Recent data from the Western Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) shows that shark bycatch is ten times greater when purse seiners fish on FADs than without.

Please ensure the following: 
 
•	Tuna must not be caught using purse seine nets set on FADs – dropping FADs will mean hundreds of thousands of sharks and other marine species are saved each year.

•	Tuna is caught using sustainable fishing methods - switching to a sustainable fishing method like pole and line not only reduces bycatch, it boosts employment in the Pacific Island countries that rely on healthy fisheries for survival.

•	Overfished tuna species are not used in your canned tuna products or sold on your shelves.
  
•	Tuna must not come from companies with any connection to illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) vessels - ending IUU fishing will allow for proper management of tuna. 
 
•	Tuna must not come from proposed or existing marine reserves - creating marine reserves will protect precious marine life for future generations and restore the health of our oceans.
 
Until all of the above are addressed, you are contributing the oceans crisis. The UK tuna industry listened to the concerns of its customers. Please follow suit and heed our concerns too.
 
I look forward to hearing when you will be switching to sustainably sourced tuna and publicly supporting marine reserves.

Yours faithfully,

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Change your tuna!

The world's favourite fish – tuna – is in serious trouble.

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