Green group Greenpeace hung a huge longline loaded with replicas of at-risk marine species from the roof of Costco in Vancouver on Tuesday in a move to get the company to stop selling seafood that is harmfully fished or farmed. A banner attached to longline hooks transformed the Costco sign to read “Costco Wholesale Ocean Destruction.”
The demonstration is part of Greenpeace’s 2010 Taking Stock campaign, which targets Canada's eight biggest supermarkets in an effort to make their seafood purchasing and selling practices less environmentally damaging.
Costco ranked worst in Greenpeace’s second annual supermarket ranking report, Taking Stock: Ranking supermarkets on seafood sustainability, released early this month. The company is the only major food retail chain in Canada not committed to creating a seafood policy.
Costco has also failed to stop selling species that are on Greenpeace's Redlist of destructively fished or farmed seafood.
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Photo courtesy of Greenpeace