Report reveals some UK seafood companies outpacing competitors on Decapod Crustacean welfare

Published 2024년 1월 17일

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A report on Decapod Crustacean welfare in the UK seafood industry reveals that companies like Marks & Spencer, Waitrose, and Young's Seafood are leading the field, but there are disparities between companies in taking action on decapod crustacean welfare. The report is the first benchmark to assess leading seafood producers, processors, retailers, and wholesalers in the UK on their management practices and reporting of welfare standards for decapod crustaceans. Although there has been significant progress in companies publishing policies on decapod welfare areas, more than half of the companies assessed scored less than 20% and more action is needed on humane stunning and slaughter methods for decapods.

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Report reveals some UK seafood companies outpacing competitors on Decapod Crustacean welfare. The Snapshot: Industry Benchmark on Decapod Crustacean Welfare shows Marks & Spencer, Waitrose and Young’s Seafood are leading the field, but highlights disparities between companies taking action on decapod crustacean welfare. The Snapshot: Industry Benchmark on Decapod Crustacean Welfare is the first benchmark to objectively assess leading seafood producers, processors, retailers, and wholesalers in the UK on their management practices and reporting of welfare standards for decapod crustaceans, such as crabs, lobsters, prawns and nephrops (langoustines). The first Snapshot 2022 report, released last January, established a baseline of information from which future progress could be measured but did not publish individual company scores. Commissioned by the UK’s leading decapod welfare organisation, Crustacean Compassion, and facilitated by Chronos Sustainability – the specialists behind ...

Source: Fish Focus