Oh No Costco: Greenpeace Attacks Chain for Selling 15 Red-Listed Seafood Species

What's wrong with buying in bulk for cheap from the country's largest wholesale club operator? When there isn't much of a sustainability policy behind the store's purchasing decisions, it means we are getting a discount to quickly destroy the world's ecosystems.

To publicize how unsustainable Costco's seafood selection is, Greenpeace's latest campaign calls out the wholesaler for selling 15 of the 22 red list seafood items, and is asking people to join them in demanding Costco act more responsibly.

The Oh No Costco campaign points out that two of those fish need particularly strong protection because they grow slowly and reproduce late in life: orange roughy and Chilean sea bass.

We already know how treacherous Chilean sea bass fishing is, and as Greenpeace points out, "Orange roughy is caught in bottom trawls, which have horrific impacts on the seabed and the animals living there."

The other red-listers that Costco continues to sell are: pollock, Atlantic cod, Atlantic salmon, Atlantic sea scallops, Chilean sea bass, grouper, monkfish, ocean quahog, orange roughy, red snapper, redfish, South Atlantic albacore tuna, swordfish, tropical shrimp, and yellowfin tuna.