It took around 4 days, pressure from various organisations (especially the Shark Trust, thanks Ali), and what I presume was quite a large volume of e-mails from around the world but hopefully we're getting somewhere. On Friday, Tesco UK finally got themselves in to gear and released the following statement...
"We do not stock shark or shark derived products in the UK in accordance with our UK Fish Sustainability Policy.
We have become aware that such products are stocked in Tesco stores overseas, namely Thailand.
We have communication from Board level to delist threatened species and that we must develop a sustainability strategy for the rest of global shark sales.
As a consequence we would like to invite representatives from the Shark Trust to engage in dialogue on this matter."
It's a really big move as far as I'm concerned, but at the same time, until the fins are removed from sale we have to keep pushing. There is also an article on the Daily Telegraph website regarding the issue (if anyone in the UK reads the paper version, please let me know if it's in there too) that can be seen at...
Also, DIVE Magazine have informed me that they will be running a Bite Back article on this in next months (December) issue of the magazine.
Keep your eyes open for more updates, and keep pushing.
Mik.
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