Cod off! Birds Eye switches to pollock fish fingers

Frozen food giant Birds Eye finally bowed to the inevitable today and announced plans to reduce the amount of cod in its fish fingers in favour of Alaskan pollock. Birds Eye has been sourcing cod from the massively overfished Eastern Baltic Sea for many years, and for the past five years scientists have been saying that cod stocks are so depleted that all fishing must stop to give them a chance to recover. Until now Birds Eye has ignored this advice, even though it's already made a similar commitment to stop using cod from the North Sea, which is also seriously overfished.