Tag: Sustainable Fishing
Changes to New Zealand catch limits. Fisheries New Zealand has announced changes to catch limits for 14 fish stocks and the introduction of a full year-round closure to harvesting shellfish at Cockle Bay/Tuwakamana on Auckland’s ...
MSC Seaspiracy Response – Sustainable fishing does exist and helps protect our oceans. The Seaspiracy film on Netflix raises a wide range of issues relating to our oceans, including questioning the credibility of the sustainable seafood movement and in ...
Fishermen Encouraged to Join the Discussion on Fisheries Management, states Fishing into the Future (FITF) Industry-led UK charity, Fishing into the Future (FITF), relaunches with an online event on Thursday 1st April 2021. The event ...
Call to make small pelagic fisheries more sustainable As an MSC briefing underlines the need to protect small pelagic populations, two stakeholders in Mexico tell how they put their differences to one side to chart ...
South African Hake Trawl Fishery celebrates fourth MSC certification. Supported by government, industry and market stakeholders, the SA hake trawl fishery’s MSC status places it amongst the best managed fisheries in the world – helping ...
Friend of the Sea recertifies BigFish Maldives for sustainable seafood production. Friend of the Sea, the pre-eminent certification standard for products and services that respect and protect the marine environment, announced today that it has ...
Funding boost for sustainable fishing in Global South Additional three-year partnership with Dutch Postcode Lottery agreed. The Dutch Postcode Lottery has confirmed that it will continue to support the Marine Stewardship Council for a further three years by providing an annual funding contribution of €500,000. The funds will support the MSC to increase its capacity ...
New Global Platform Connects Small-scale Fishers to Improve Sustainability, Livelihoods – Interactive, multilingual platform brings together fishers, fishworkers, communities and allies. A global coalition of partners working in and with small-scale fisheries has launched the Small-Scale ...
Scientists assess Baltic fishing opportunities. Experts are preparing justifications for the allowable catch in the Baltic Sea, Curonian and Kaliningrad (Vistula) bays for the next year, reports Fishnews. The stock of East Baltic cod is at ...
MSC certification of eight Indonesian one-by-one tuna. IPNLF, the non-profit organisation that is committed to globally developing and supporting responsible one-by-one tuna fisheries and supply chains, together with its local partner, AP2HI, is delighted to ...
Friend of the Sea recertifies Golden Omega for sustainable production of omega-3 concentrates. Friend of the Sea, the preeminent certification standard for products and services that respect and protect the marine environment, has issued a ...
Australian NGO welcomes orange roughy decision. Moves by the fishing industry to get Australia’s orange roughy fishery certified as sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) have failed in a victory for conservation and sustainable ...
Managing fisheries sustainably would increase global food supply . The Marine Stewardship Council says the world is missing out on enough protein to meet the yearly needs of 72 million people, because not all fisheries ...
World missing out on nutrition for 72 million people due to over-fishing. MSC says managing fisheries sustainably would increase global food supply The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) – an environmental not-for-profit – says the world is missing out on enough protein ...
Tristan da Cunha, world’s most remote inhabited archipelago becomes model of sustainability. Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic, with just 245 inhabitants and an MSC certified lobster fishery, has a new Marine Protected Area ...
Icelandic small-scale lumpfish fishery regains MSC certification. A small scale lumpfish fishery based in Iceland has regained MSC certification, after making the necessary improvements in the past years to meet the science-based standard for sustainable ...
Atlanto-Scandian herring and blue whiting MSC to be suspended. The independent assessors responsible for certifying fisheries to the MSC Fishery Standard have announced that Atlanto-Scandian herring and blue whiting fisheries will be suspended from the ...
Namibian fishery second in Africa to be certified as sustainable. The Namibia hake trawl and longline fishery has become the first fishery in Namibia, and the second in Africa, to meet the globally recognised standard for ...
IPNLF announces new Chair of their Board as part of leadership succession plan. Rahim Hoosen will succeed John Burton as chair of the board after he successfully steered the global charity for the past seven years ...
Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishery now MSC certified. A small-scale, artisanal fishery based in the South of France has achieved certification to the global standard for sustainable fishing set by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). The fishery, which ...
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