An account of the dolphin-safe tuna issue in the UK |
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| Institution: | 1. Observatoire PELAGIS UMS 3462 CNRS-ULR, Université de La Rochelle, 5 allée de l’Océan, 17 000 La Rochelle, France;2. Ifremer Centre Atlantique, Unité Écologie et Modèles pour l''Halieutique (EMH), Rue de l''Ile d''Yeu, BP 21105, 44 311 Nantes Cedex 03, France;3. Ifremer Station de Lorient, Laboratoire de Technologie et de Biologie Halieutique (LTBH), 8 rue François Toullec, 56 100 Lorient, France;4. Centre d’Études Biologiques de Chizé (CEBC), UMR 7372 CNRS-ULR, 79360 Villiers en Bois, France;1. Western Australian Fisheries and Marine Research Laboratories, Department of Fisheries, Government of Western Australia, PO Box 20, North Beach, WA 6920, Australia;2. Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture, College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia;1. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Instituto de Ciências da Sociedade e Desenvolvimento Regional, Departamento de Geografia de Campos, Rua José do Patrocínio, 71, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, 28010-385, Brazil;2. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Campus Universitário, Trindade, Florianópolis, SC, 88040-970, Brazil;3. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comportamento e Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Zoologia, Campus Universitário, s/n°, Martelos, Juiz de Fora, MG, 36036-900, Brazil;4. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Recursos Naturais, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense, Laboratório de Ciências Ambientais. Av. Alberto Lamego, 2.000, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, 28013-602, Brazil;1. Animal Biology Department, Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Campo Grande 1749-016, Lisboa, Portugal;2. Centre of Marine Sciences, CCMAR. University of the Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, FCT Ed7, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal;3. Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK;4. Animal Biology Department, Centre of Statistics and its Applications, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal;5. Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal |
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| Abstract: | Virtually all canned tuna in the UK is labelled as dolphin-safe despite the fact that the market is almost exclusively skipjack tuna. It is thus not implicated in the dolphin bycatch problem associated with the yellowfin tuna of the Eastern Tropical Pacific consumed in the USA. There were a range of different motives among processors and retailers in adopting the labelling scheme in the UK. The scheme may be more of a marketing ploy, promoted by the major processors, than an eco-label forced upon the market through consumer and environmentalist power. Environmental groups can nonetheless be credited with driving the development of initial first-party labelling schemes into the present, more independent, second-party scheme. The scheme now in place in the UK is different from that in the USA, being preventative, ensuring that tuna sold does not become dolphin-un-safe, rather than actively addressing a specific existing environmental problem. |
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