Title of Greenpeace “Fake My Catch” report of 2022 is a play on “Trace My Catch” promise of seafood companies.
By Ken Stone / Times of San Diego / Sept. 6, 2023
Ten years after Greenpeace saw one of its ships seized by Russia, the same 166-foot icebreaker is docked at San Diego’s Broadway Pier.
The mission of the Arctic Sunrise is less dangerous this time. Instead of sending activists to board a Gazprom oil rig, it’s launching an effort to hold major seafood companies accountable for alleged human rights abuses. The ship bears a banner: “Bumble Bee: Stop worker and ocean exploitation.”
Bumble Bee Seafood Co., whose U.S. headquarters is less than two miles from the pier, is the target of a petition drive to “end modern slavery in its supply chain.” More than 50,000 have signed, mostly in the United States, the group says.
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