A survey commissioned by Greenpeace genetics researchers found that the global tuna canned market is a mix of fish and fish, confusing labeling, some canned with a variety of tuna, and some canned with other fish as tuna.

 

The international the Atlantic tuna Protection Committee is holding its annual conference in Paris, France. Greenpeace submitted the random inspection report to the General Assembly on the 23rd, calling for the regulation of the tuna market, to stop violations, illegal and unsustainable business practices.

 

Greenpeace canned samples from 12 countries including Austria, Australia, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Canada, Spain, Italy, the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Germany, involving more than 60 brands of 165 different types of tuna cans, commissioned a Spanish genetic laboratory Detection of food genes.

 

The results showed that the proportion of blue-fin tuna, long-fin tuna, big-eye tuna, yellow-fin tuna was less than 1%, 5%, 10%, 24% and 60% respectively.

 

Laboratory tests found that some brands of canned fish were mixed with different kinds of tuna meat, and some canned fish were genetically tested to show that the fish in the canned food were under age. Some canned fish were labeled as skipjack meat, but were mixed with large-eyed Tuna meat and yellowfin tuna meat.

 

The tuna is a more common species, while the populations of bigeye tuna, yellowfin tuna and bluefin tuna are declining, and are protected in some countries.

 

Greenpeace warned that at this stage, the tuna industry mostly uses a floating "fish collection device" to trap tuna, which often catches non-target species in tuna fishing, and sometimes even turtles and sharks into traps.

 

Moreover, most fishermen do not sort after harvesting, resulting in juvenile tuna and even some other marine species entering food processing plants through mechanized equipment and eventually canned.

 

Greenpeace called for legal measures to regulate tuna market.