Herhaalde dringende oproep Unilever: stop piratenvisserij!

Enkele weken geleden hebben we je gevraagd mee te doen aan een e-mailactie om Unilever onder druk te zetten. Het bedrijf moet ervoor zorgen dat de leveranciersketens van haar merken, waaronder Iglo, vrij zijn van illegale kabeljauw. Unilever moet schoon schip maken voordat het Iglo verkoopt aan investeringsmaatschappij Permira. Unilever heeft nog steeds geen plan van aanpak bekend gemaakt. Daarom vragen we je nog één keer mee te doen en Unilever via onderstaande e-mail te vragen om een publiek statement: hoe en wanneer gaat Unilever nu eindelijk stappen ondernemen om illegale vis uit producten te weren? Gaat Unilever Iglo ’schoon’ verkopen aan de nieuwe eigenaar Permira?

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To: 
Patrick J. Cescau, Group Chief Executive and Director Unilever, 
Kees van der Graaf, President Unilever Europe, 
Dierk Peters, International Marketing Manager Unilever.

Dear Mr Peters, Mr van der Graaf and Mr Cescau,

(AIPCE) met in a summit on pirate fisheries. The agreements  
established were promising but, as you are aware, are guidelines  
for companies like you to implement, rather than binding commitments.

Iglo and Birds Eye have so far made no public statements regarding  if, how and when they will implement the AIPCE recommmendations or other concrete measures to avoid illegal cod. There has been no public commitment by your company on steps taken against pirate fish in your products.

Your company makes enough fishsticks every year to stretch around the equator - that's a lot of fishsticks! Currently your suppliers source cod from both the Barents and Baltic, and as a result you cannot guarantee that the fish in the products we eat is not caught illegally.

I realise you are in the process of selling your Birds Eye and Iglo  
 brands in Europe to Permira, an investment company. Before the sale is finalised you should publicly commit to making sure they are buying a clean product, and ensure that the rest of your frozen food brands are free of illegal cod fish too.

This is why I am urgently asking you to publicly commit to the  
 following minimum steps against illegal cod and to publicly state  
 that you have made these commitments:

To buy no cod from:
 - vessels listed as pirate vessels (by Norway or NEAFC)
 - vessels under flags of convenience
 - ports that do not report landings to Norway as well as Russia
 - the Baltic due to high illegality and complete over fishing of  
 the stock.

Yours sincerely,