If you have ever seen a little stamp on some canned fish that the Marine Stewardship Council says, it may sound Chinese to you, but it is a non-profit organization that guarantees that certain products come from sustainable fishing.
Although the seal has been in our life for several years and we also see it in fresh products, until now no one had taken the step of making a white label preserve with sustainable fish. Yes, there are examples of big brands, but what is also known as private label has never gone further.
In this case, the Marine Stewardship Council guarantees that the skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) of the preserve comes from the catch of tuna carried out by the fishing boats of the Basque company Pesqueras Echebastar in the Seychelles Islands and other points in the Indian Ocean.
The news is surprising because it is the first step a private label takes to market a sustainable canned tuna with its own seal, especially after taking into account that there are more than 174 products that have the MSC guarantee in the Spanish markets (fresh, canned and frozen), but to date none belonged to what commonly we call as white label and where most of them belong to bonito.
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By contrast, a much more common product on our shelves such as canned tuna (The Spaniards consume 2.4 kilos of this fish per year, being leaders in Europe) it does not usually enjoy this sustainable recognition. Not in vain, we only consume about 4,000 tons of tuna with this blue seal, which is the pyrrhic amount of 3% of the total consumed.
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