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sustainability ranking. John West stated that "Quite simply, there is no longer enough pole and line tuna available to meet global demand ... we have found it extremely difficult to increase the proportion of John West pole and line tuna that we can provide". In a rebuttal, Greenpeace pointed out that it was the lack of investment from large fleet-owners and processors like John West that result in this situation, and that John West had felt it achievable in 2011.
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as selling the least sustainable tinned tuna in the UK in its Tuna League. It was also criticised for indiscriminate use of destructive fishing methods leading to the decimation of turtle and shark populations, and
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By 2016 the company had reneged on this promise, with just 2% of its fish caught using pole-and-line. The estimated 98% of John West's tuna caught using methods harmful to the environment or to other species such as dolphins, lead the company to last place again in
Greenpeace's 2015 tuna
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John West described the omission as "simply a website limitation". The controversy became widely reported in the news, leading to John West changing its website to state that customers wishing to trace a can from
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of not standing by their word, and of having made a "deeply misleading" and "plainly false" promise to this effect. Greenpeace asked for volunteers to check the traceability codes on John West cans. It was found that although the website showed tuna only being caught in the
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acquired the brand and the majority of the John West Food company operations, excluding those in
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