Tag: Sustainable Fishing
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 ...
MSC CEO – consumers care about the ocean. Writing in the Marine Stewardship Council’s 2020 Annual Report, CEO Rupert Howes says it has been a difficult year and urges increased efforts towards sustainability in the ...
Spanish tuna group enters MSC assessment. Spanish tuna association, AGAC, has asked for its tropical tuna catch to be independently assessed against the rigorous Marine Stewardship Council (the MSC) Fishery Standard. The fishery, the Association ...
Wild fisheries and mariculture could help meet rising demand for food if sustainably managed. Demand for food is set to rise substantially in the coming decades, which raises a question: How well can the ocean ...
Mediterranean and Black Seas fishing opportunities for 2021. With this proposal, the European Commission is delivering on the political commitments made in the MedFish4Ever and the Sofia Declarations to promote sustainable management of fish stocks ...
MSC goes fishing in space for sustainable solutions. Just over fifty years after humans first set foot on the moon, the “Gravity Challenge” takes space technology to tackle some of the biggest environmental and business ...
China issues new sustainability rules for its fishing fleet, states an article on the Mongabay website. China has made the first major revisions to regulations governing its distant-water fishing fleet in 17 years. The new ...
Japanese bluefin tuna fishery now certified as sustainable. A Japanese longline bluefin tuna fishery, Usufuku Honten Co. Ltd, has formally become the first in the world to achieve certification to the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) global ...
Certified Seafood Collaborative takes ownership. On July 1, 2020, the Certified Seafood Collaborative (CSC), a 501(c)(3) non-profit foundation led by a diverse board of seafood and sustainability industry experts, became the owner of the Responsible ...
USA east coast squid achieves MSC. Longfin squid (Doryteuthis (Amerigo) pealeii), also known as loligo, and Northern shortfin squid (Illex illecebrosus) caught by Seafreeze Limited and Sea Fresh USA off the U.S. East Coast have ...
New funding will continue FAO-led Common Oceans Programme. The approval of the Global Environment Facility’s (GEF) new work programme of USD 700 million for urgent environmental action – through and beyond the coronavirus pandemic – ...
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