IT HAS come a full circle.
Humans, who were
responsible for the debacle in the first place, are
now being asked to act as
saviours too. The world's
depleting fish stocks
could get a boost if a new initiative of
the World Wide Fund for Nature (wwF)
and Unilever Plc, one of the world's
largest buyers of frozen fish, gets
underway.
The scheme, announced on
February 22 this year at London, UK, lays
emphasis on consumer choice by hoping to prevail upon them to buy products from those firms which backed sustainable fishing worldwide. This
should go a long way in restoring the
number of fish in the oceAs. Says
Michael Sutton, director of WWF'S
endangered seas campaign, "In a few
years' tim@ we want the consumer to be
able to go to a supermarket and choose
between fish products which come from
well-managed stocks and those which
do not".
An independent Marine Stewardship Council (msc) would be created
which will promote sustainable fishing
and also Jay down standards for individual fisheries. Unilever and WWF will
spend two years to discuss the formation of the msc. Products made of fish
caught in accordance with the standards
would be marked with alogo which will
allow environmentally aware consumers
to buy from 'responsible producers'.
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