News covering global seafood environment & sustainability issues.
By SeafoodSource staff
09 June, 2010
With the additions of Spanish companies Conservas Garavilla S.A. and Jealsa Rianxeira S.A., the number of companies participating in the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation totals 12.
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By SeafoodSource staff
08 June, 2010
In conjunction with World Oceans Day, WWF-Malaysia and the Malaysian Nature Society launch the country’s first sustainable seafood buying guide.
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By SeafoodSource staff
04 June, 2010
The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation passes a conservation measure requiring tuna-fishing vessels to obtain a unique vessel identifier.
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By SeafoodSource staff
02 June, 2010
Atlantic Canada’s offshore lobster fishery is the region’s sixth fishery and the world’s first American lobster fishery to obtain Marine Stewardship Council certification.
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By SeafoodSource staff
01 June, 2010
Young’s Seafood’s environmental initiative is the only British entry out of 11 to make it to the final round of the European Business Awards for the Environment.
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By SeafoodSource staff
01 June, 2010
The sustainability certification applies to all major flatfish fisheries in the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, including yellowfin sole, flathead sole and arrowtooth flounder.
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By SeafoodSource staff
28 May, 2010
Maersk releases a statement clarifying that it still
accepts all seafood shipments from New Zealand made in accordance with
local legislation.
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By SeafoodSource staff
27 May, 2010
As as part of its new sustainable seafood policy, the world's largest container-shipping company refuses to deal with unsustainable seafood species.
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By Lindsey Partos, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Paris
25 May, 2010
One-third of consumers surveyed failed to recognize any eco-labels and 40 percent said the eco-labels don’t provide enough information.
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By SeafoodSource staff
25 May, 2010
Denying an objection filed last year, an independent adjudicator says the Aker BioMarine Antarctic krill fishery meets the Marine Stewardship Council standard for sustainable fisheries.
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By Lindsey Partos, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Paris
13 May, 2010
Greenpeace activists encircle three tuna trawlers near the port of Frontignan, as the country’s controversial bluefin tuna fishery kicks off.
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By SeafoodSource staff
10 May, 2010
The proposed MSC certification of the Ross Sea Antarctic toothfish fishery must be reconsidered by its certifier, rules an independent adjudicator.
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By SeafoodSource staff
06 May, 2010
Ian Hagg, head of corporate social responsibility at the Findus Group, says the study’s findings serve as a “valuable lesson.”
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By Lindsey Partos, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Paris
04 May, 2010
The crab is awarded the label following an investigation by third-party auditor Bureau Veritas into the fishing practices at Scapêche, the fishing arm of French retailer Intermarche.
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By April Forristall, SeafoodSource assistant editor
28 April, 2010
Richmond, Va.-based MeadWestvaco Corp. prides itself on its sustainability efforts, in the works for years.
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By SeafoodSource staff
28 April, 2010
In addition, the Newfoundland purse-seine herring fishery and western and central Pacific skipjack tuna fishery enter full assessment in the MSC program.
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By SeafoodSource staff
26 April, 2010
The company pledges to buy only seafood from Marine Stewardship Council-certified fisheries by 2012 as part of its "Fish for Life" program.
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By SeafoodSource staff
22 April, 2010
Moody Marine is asked to reconsider its evaluation of Aker BioMarine’s Antarctic krill fishery as part of the Marine Stewardship Council certification process.
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By SeafoodSource staff
22 April, 2010
One of the world’s largest foodservice and hospitality providers looks to Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program to guide its seafood-purchasing decisions.
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By SeafoodSource staff
22 April, 2010
The 124-store grocer is now selling coho salmon from a closed-containment farm — the first Canadian retailer to do so on a large scale.
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By SeafoodSource staff
20 April, 2010
The Marine Stewardship Council will use Postcode Lottery funds to increase outreach to Pacific tuna fisheries, support its operations in China and increase its number of promotions.
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By SeafoodSource staff
14 April, 2010
The environmental NGO's seafood-buying guide, Canada's Seafood Guide, is now available to download for free as an iPhone application.
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By Lindsey Partos, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Paris
09 April, 2010
European MEPs throw their support behind stricter rules to track bluefin tuna throughout the supply chain, less than a month after CITES delegates quashed a proposed Appendix I listing for the species.
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By SeafoodSource staff
05 April, 2010
Located in British Indian Ocean Territory, part of the 250,000-square-mile marine protected area is now off limits to commercial fishing.
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By SeafoodSource staff
01 April, 2010
This is the latest step in the effort to fulfill the Dutch demersal fishing fleet’s 2008 pledge to enter all its fisheries in the Marine Stewardship Council program by 2012.
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