Oceans Action, Costco Headquarters Issaquah, Washington

The Greenpeace airship A.E. Bates flies the banner 'Costco: Wholesale Ocean Destruction' over Costco Corporate Headquarters in Issaquah, Washington June 30, 2010. Although Costco, the largest wholesale club operator in North America, tells its shareholders and customers that it supports sustainable seafood, it sells 15 of the 22 ‘red-listed’ seafoods including two of the world’s most critically imperiled species: orange roughy and Chilean sea bass. ‘Red listed’ species which are at risk of extinction are determined by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) which is the world’s leading authority on the conservation status of species.