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Following similar news from other grocery retailers such as Walmart Canada and Metro, Delhaize America has announced last week that all of its supermarkets are now part of a new sustainable seafood program.

The new comprehensive seafood policy –which applies to all supermarkets in the chain, including Hannaford, Sweetbay, the Food Lion family of banners and Bottom Dollar Food — requires suppliers to verify that seafood is coming from sources managed for sustainability. It applies to all seafood in the stores, including fresh, frozen and packaged fish and shellfish. (more…)

Walmart Canada has announced a new Sustainable Seafood Policy which will ensure that by 2013, only sustainably-sourced fish will be sold in its stores.

The new policy is comprehensive and will cover all frozen, wild and farmed fish. Specifically, the company plans to: (more…)

Sustainability, local sourcing, and nutrition will be the hottest menu trends in 2010, according to the National Restaurant Association’s annual survey of more than 1,800 professional chefs.

The chefs – all members of the American Culinary Federation – ranked nearly 215 food and beverage items, preparation methods, and culinary themes. The resulting top five trends were: (more…)

For years now, researchers have been warning about the collapse of our marine ecosystems. In particular, global fish populations are declining, and as startling as it sounds, by some estimates, we’ve already pushed as much as 75% of the world's fisheries beyond the limits of sustainability.

In the U.S., consumers buy half of their seafood at supermarkets –ringing in a total of about $16 billion in annual seafood sales –and so, a few years ago, Greenpeace initiated a scorecard that ranks supermarkets on the sustainability of their seafood operations. The third edition of this seafood sustainability scorecard, titled “Carting Away the Oceans,” was released this week, and it contains a glimmer of good news: more than half of the leading supermarket chains in the U.S. have made at least some progress in helping the oceans and meeting meet consumer demand for sustainable products.

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