Steer clear of the Swedish shrimp, is the conclusion of the WWF World Wide Fund for Nature in Sweden’s new seafood guide.
Nordsjøreka – Pandalus borealis – fished in Norwegian, Swedish and Danish waters.
Reka received a red light from WWF Sweden already in 2014, but the following year it was environmentally certified, and thus received a green light again from the Nature Fund.
Now WWF Sweden, on the other hand, has chosen to disregard the certification, and shrimp fished in Swedish waters will thus get a red light again.
It makes the trade association Swedish Fishermen’s Producers’ Association (SFPO) tear its hair out:
More women are choosing this profession
– Not durable
– It’s just so stupid that I do not know what to say, says chairman Peter Ronelöv Olsson in SFPO to SVTand thinks the whole thing is «incomprehensible».
According to WWF, the reason for the red listing is that the shrimp fishery in the North Sea and Skagerak has until recently been poorly managed. At the same time, they point out that improvements have been made.
– This fishery is not biologically long-term sustainable, Inger Melander in WWF explains to SVT.
She claims that shrimp fishing in Sweden has a negative impact on the ecosystem.
