»  Mad as a Marine Biologist: Singapore's anti-Shark Fin Momentum!

mad-as-a-marine-biologist:

Guys, guys, guys! It’s seriously exciting in Singapore right now!

After a seafood supplier’s completely unprofessional employee wrote this on their facebook page (read more here):

“Screw the divers! Shark’s fin & Mola Mola will be launched at NTUC Fairprice outlets during CNY 2012!”

Singapore’s major supermarket chain denounced them as a supplier AND has pledged to buy no more Shark Fin products!

The whole controversy has thrust the Shark Fin debate into the limelight, and the story has been picked up by several news outlets, including the newspaper in Singapore, The Straits Times! 

 

The whole thing is snowballing. Another supermarket Carrefour has announced that it will stop selling shark fin products by the end of the year!! 

I cannot tell you how exciting it is to see this change in the making. Two major supermarket chains will stop selling shark fin products, all because of the power of social media. I urge you to join this “revolution”.

Because of the publicity, this isn’t one of those empty pledges or petitions that you put your name and email and never hear of again. Your support will be heard. This scandal has opened up this debate at a crucial time of year! 

There is a ‘cause’ on facebook petitioning for a Shark Fin Free Singapore by 2013. Your support would make a huge difference. If successful, we will have eliminated a major demand for shark fins. Singapore would be blazing a trail for other countries like China/Hong Kong to follow. 

There are already more than 2,400 members. It took much much less than that to get shark fin off the shelves of NTUC. Imagine what we could do with global support?

AND NOW WE CAN ADD FAIRMONT HOTEL AND CARREFOUR TO THE EVER GROWING LIST! THIS IS HUGE GUYS GET INVOLVED. 

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Fairprice make a stand against irresponsible seafood company

As you may have heard Thern Da Seafood angered many people this week in Singapore and world with their online comment “Screw the divers! Sharks fin and mola mola will be launched at all NTUC fairprice outlets during CNY 2012”.

Fairprice have seen the light and released this coment:

Thank you everyone for your comments and for alerting us to this matter. As a standing instruction, all our suppliers are required to clear their joint promotional materials and messages with us before implementation. In this incident, the supplier had not complied with our standing instruction. We take this matter very seriously and we are withdrawing all products from Thern Da Seafood across all our stores. Sustainability is important to FairPrice and we have been relooking various policies in our commitment to be a socially responsible retailer. The sale of shark fin has been one of the areas that we have been looking into in the past few months. We are pleased to announce that we will cease the sale of shark fin products by the first quarter of this year. This is to ensure that we honour our current commitments to our partners but will no longer be placing new orders for shark fin products.

Looks like the divers won! Screw you Thern Da Seafood!

1 year ago
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rhamphotheca: Amazing Neptune’s Cup Sponge Redicovered in Singapore by John R. Platt More than 100 years after it was last seen, the giant Neptune’s cup sponge (Cliona patera) has been rediscovered off the coast of southern Singapore. First discovered in 1822, the sponges grew so large—a meter or more in both height and diameter—that their cup-like structures were sometimes used as tubs for babies. But their size made them valuable to collectors around the world and they were overharvested until they disappeared from Singapore in the 1870s. The last time living sponges were seen was 1908, when collectors found some in West Java, Indonesia. The species was then thought to be extinct. But in the 1990s, a few dead Neptune’s cup sponges turned near Australia, giving researchers hope that they might find these massive Porifera again in the oceans around Singapore… (read more: Scientific American)   (photo: DHI Water and Environment)

rhamphotheca:

Amazing Neptune’s Cup Sponge Redicovered in Singapore

by John R. Platt

More than 100 years after it was last seen, the giant Neptune’s cup sponge (Cliona patera) has been rediscovered off the coast of southern Singapore.

First discovered in 1822, the sponges grew so large—a meter or more in both height and diameter—that their cup-like structures were sometimes used as tubs for babies. But their size made them valuable to collectors around the world and they were overharvested until they disappeared from Singapore in the 1870s. The last time living sponges were seen was 1908, when collectors found some in West Java, Indonesia. The species was then thought to be extinct.

But in the 1990s, a few dead Neptune’s cup sponges turned near Australia, giving researchers hope that they might find these massive Porifera again in the oceans around Singapore…

(read more: Scientific American)   (photo: DHI Water and Environment)

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Leading Singaporean supermarket chain says “no” to shark fin Prominent Singapore-based supermarket chain Cold Storage has joined the WWF Singapore Sustainable Seafood Group and marked its commitment with an announcement that it will stop selling all shark fin and shark products in its 42 outlets across the country. WWF Singapore Sustainable Seafood Group was launched in April this year and provides businesses with the guidance they need to source and promote sustainable seafood while also playing a role in protecting the marine environment. “We want to play our part towards caring for the environment. Our team is committed to sourcing for quality, sustainable seafood and other products in our efforts to achieve long-term sustainability and marine conservation,” explained Mr Victor Chia, CEO, Cold Storage Supermarket. 

Leading Singaporean supermarket chain says “no” to shark fin

Prominent Singapore-based supermarket chain Cold Storage has joined the WWF Singapore Sustainable Seafood Group and marked its commitment with an announcement that it will stop selling all shark fin and shark products in its 42 outlets across the country. 

WWF Singapore Sustainable Seafood Group was launched in April this year and provides businesses with the guidance they need to source and promote sustainable seafood while also playing a role in protecting the marine environment. 

“We want to play our part towards caring for the environment. Our team is committed to sourcing for quality, sustainable seafood and other products in our efforts to achieve long-term sustainability and marine conservation,” explained Mr Victor Chia, CEO, Cold Storage Supermarket. 

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