Food Lion to sell only sustainable seafood

Food Lion, a company that operates over a hundred supermarkets in the United States, has put in effect a seafood policy that covers some 1,000 fresh, frozen, canned or packaged products.  This policy ensures customers that the seafood products they purchase are harvested sustainably.

The industry-leading policy states:

-Food Lion suppliers must provide full traceability back to source of fishery or seafood farm.

-Seafood caught in the wild must come from source fisheries that are governed by credible, enforceable and science-based management plans that respect the amount of harvest to ensure seafood populations will continue to be healthy in the future.

-Farm-raised seafood is certified and reviewed to ensure that production does not harm communities, workers, the environment or human health.

-The Gulf of Maine Research Institute will confirm fisheries that supply our seafood are responsibly managed.

-Monitoring and compliance measures are in place to ensure harvest levels are maintained within appropriate limits.

As part of the launch, the company donated 9,000 sustainable seafood products to several food banks such as the Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina in North Carolina, Feedmore Food Bank in Virginia, and Harvest Hope Food Bank in South Carolina.