Major British seafood brands linked to fishing in fragile Arctic area

Greenpeace finds suppliers of cod to Birds Eye, Findus and Young's are using controversial bottom trawlers in the northern Barents Sea

Major British food brands and supermarkets buying cod from Arctic waters risk having their supply chain "tainted" because of links with fishing further north in the Arctic, Greenpeace has warned.

An investigation by the group has revealed that suppliers of cod to Birds Eye, Findus and Young's are using controversial giant bottom trawlers in the northern Barents Sea around Svalbard, an area deemed by scientists to be ecologically significant.