A victory for the whales (Argentine seafood company dumps Nissui)

Argentina — Our Argentine Ocean Defenders have hit Nissui in their pockets. Nissui own about one third of Kyodo Senpaku -- the people who run the Japanese whaling fleet. Our cyberactivists have convinced a major Nissui client in Argentina not to buy from a corporation involved in the killing of whales.

As well as directly confronting the whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean we have been exposing how many well-known companies are linked to corporations involved in whaling. Internationally we have been focussing on Gorton's, but in Argentina the focus is on companies that do business with one of the corporations most closely linked to whaling in Japan, Nissui.

Nissui has Argentine subsidiaries that operate freezer trawlers, one of which is a surimi (type of minced fish) processor, which is sold in Argentina, Uruguay and Japan.

A popular seafood company in Argentina, Pesquera Santa Elena was using Nissui fish in its products. So we targeted Santa Elena to ask them to stop buying from Nissui and make it clear that whaling is bad for business.

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http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/victory-for-the-whales130106