The Hannaford Supermarket chain has announced what it calls a new "sweeping sustainable seafood policy." The company said all 2,500 seafood products sold in its 181 Northeastern supermarkets have now been documented as sustainably harvested.
Hannaford's sustainability manager George Parmenter spoke to reporters this morning at the group's corporate headquarters in Scarborough. He said Hannaford now knows the origins of all the seafood items in its stores, either by the location of the fishery or fish-farm.
"We're really excited to say that Hannaford is the first major US retailer to be able to say that we have reviewed and documented all of the seafood products in our store as sustainably harvested," Parmenter said.
The policy has meant the removal of some 50 products from Hannaford's shelves, all of them from overseas suppliers.
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