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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The Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, California, U.S.A., has operated a world-renowned aquarium for 40 years but also has, for the past 25 years, operated the Seafood Watch program intended to guide consumers, chefs, and other buyers in determing whether the seafood they’re sourcing is sustainable.
The Seafood Watch program's red, yellow, and green rating system has also driven change by incentivizing fisheries and aquaculture operations
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The South Asian archipelagic country of Maldives has been considering whether to grant new licenses for longline fishing off the nation’s biodiverse shores, drawing criticism from NGOs and other organizations that say the practice harms vulnerable shark populations.
The Maldivian government has opened and closed longline fishing in the nation’s waters several times since foreign-flagged vessels first carried out the practice in 1985.
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MDPI, a Bali, Indonesia-based NGO that empowers coastal communities to carry out and maintain sustainable practices, has created a unique approach to working with small-scale fishers it says is paying off for both fishing communities and international supply chains.
The organization started as a corporate social responsibility program of the Netherlands-based seafood firm Anova Food in 2013.
Anova saw potential in working with small-scale
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The board of trustees at Oslo, Norway-based nonprofit Trygg Mat Tracking (TMT), which provides fisheries authorities and relevant international organizations with fisheries intelligence, analysis, and capacity-building services, recently announced the appointment of Gareth Johnstone as its new executive director, effective 1 July 2024.
Before securing his new role, Johnstone was the director general at another nonprofit, WorldFish, where he
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