The Mantle of ‘going green’: Fishworkers’ organizations need to think hard about the merits of associating with corporate environmental ventures

Belliveau, Michael (1996) The Mantle of ‘going green’: Fishworkers’ organizations need to think hard about the merits of associating with corporate environmental ventures. Samudra Report (15). p. 21. ISSN 0973 1121

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Abstract

The Anglo-Dutch food giant, Unilever, is going ‘green’. It is committing itself to eventually purchasing only fish caught from fisheries certified to be conservation-friendly. The fisheries would be certified, or otherwise, by an ‘independent’ world council being spearheaded by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Unilever.From a Canadian point of view, the call for ‘codes of conduct’ and sustainable fishing practices seems to be coming from the very industry people most directly implicated in the devastation of our demersal stocks. The new-found piety and heartfelt concern for the resource is not completely credible and the ‘green’ mantle seems to be adopted to deflect public rage at what has already occurred, while serving to maintain the perpetrators in the future fishery.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.SAM0177
Keywords:	Samudra Report, ICSF, Marine Stewardship Council, Small-scale Fisheries, Fishworkers Organisation, Sustainable Fishing, Fish Catch, Ecolabelling, Code of Conduct
Subjects:	Right to Resources
Depositing User:	Varsha V icsf
Date Deposited:	19 Oct 2021 06:19
Last Modified:	30 Mar 2022 16:34
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/534

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