Ned Daly

Ned Daly

Sustainability Specialist/Contributing Editor

Ned Daly is a sustainability specialist/contributing editor with Diversified Communications. He has worked on sustainable markets in a variety of resources for 25 years. Ned worked in seafood for the last decade with SeaWeb, Previously he was director of RugMark International (now GoodWeave), a certification program for child-labor-free rugs coming from Southeast Asia. He also served as chief operating officer for the Forest Stewardship Council in the United States, managing relationships with industry leaders and a diversity of key stakeholders including conservation nongovernment organizations, policymakers and industry trade associations. Ned has also worked on sustainable markets in the agricultural sector and the relationship between resource extraction and ecosystem health. He lives in Alfred, Maine.


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December 16, 2024
MarinTrust and the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in an attempt to streamline the certification processes between both organizations. The agreement between MarinTrust, a London, U.K.-based certification program working to improve sourcing and… Read More
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November 26, 2024
Fishing industries in Latin American countries such as Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador are using a new digital management tool developed by Global Fishing Watch (GFW) to increase the effectiveness of marine management and better protect marine resources essential to their… Read More
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November 7, 2024
The Autonomous Region of the Azores, an archipelago roughly 1,000 miles west of Portugal, has passed legislation designating the largest marine protected area (MPA) network in the North Atlantic Ocean. The MPA will cover 287,000 square kilometers, half of which will be fully protected where no… Read More
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November 5, 2024
Leslie Simmons is the senior director of business development for the fresh goods team at Oakland, California, U.S.A.-based nonprofit Fair Trade USA, where she focuses on the strategic growth and development of certified programs to drive ethical sourcing and monitor the impact of produce, floral,… Read More
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November 1, 2024
The Indonesian Tuna Consortium is working directly with the Southeast Asian nation’s seafood supply chain, as well as other stakeholders, to create a more resilient, efficient, and equitable fishing ecosystem across the archipelago. The consortium – a group of organizations comprising… Read More
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October 30, 2024

A new poll has found that most Americans care about sustainably produced seafood, food security, and protection of the world’s oceans.

The poll, released by the Walton Family Foundation (WFF) – a Bentonville, Arkansas, U.S.A.-based philanthropic organization established by Walmart founders Sam and Helen Walton – in honor of National Seafood Month, found that more than four out of five Americans agree that it is important to

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October 15, 2024
The prohibitive costs associated with implementing monitoring systems aboard fishing vessels recently led to herring fishermen in the U.S. state of New Jersey successfully suing to overturn the longstanding Chevron deference, dealing a blow to the power of U.S. regulators. Prior to the suit being… Read More
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October 7, 2024
The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC), a New Zealand-based coalition of 115 conservation-focused NGOs, is asking the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) to suspend its certification of the country’s orange roughy fishery after the New Zealand government published new scientific evidence of… Read More
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October 3, 2024
The World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) is a nonprofit organization that aims to hold companies accountable toward achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, mainly through publishing free and publicly available benchmarks on their performance. Through the release of its… Read More
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September 23, 2024
The government of the Maldives has decided to stick with its 2019 ban on issuing licenses for longline fishing in waters surrounding the nation after recently weighing whether to reopen the practice. The country's annoument it might reopen longline fishing was met with backlash from conservation… Read More