Publix Super Markets Inc. has hired a nonprofit fisheries conservation group to assess all the seafood products it carries from the standpoint of species sustainability.
The Lakeland chain, which just flunked Greenpeace's seafood sustainability ratings for grocers for a second year, has hired the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership to develop ratings of more than 300 items it stocks, from fresh to frozen to canned seafood products. The assessment includes seafood caught in the wild or fish farms that often have their own sustainability issues.
Publix, which has been publicly silent on its sustainable seafood effort, expects to make some decisions on how to use the assessments by late summer.
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