News covering global seafood environment & sustainability issues.
By SeafoodSource staff
13 March, 2013
StarKist Tuna’s parent company, Dongwon Industries, is facing criminal charges in Africa for forging government documents, including a fake fishing license and doctored official correspondence.
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By SeafoodSource staff
12 March, 2013
Skuna Bay Salmon on Monday announced it will neutralize carbon emissions from all freight shipments with carbon offset purchased through Terra Pass.
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By Melissa Wood, SeaFood Business assistant editor
11 March, 2013
Getting involved in a fishery improvement project (FIP) doesn’t have to be a long-term thing.
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By SeafoodSource staff
11 March, 2013
The latest results from an annual product survey by a sustainable and
organic food marketing company shows shoppers who prefer organic
products, including seafood, are now demanding sustainable and traceable
seafood.
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By SeafoodSource staff
11 March, 2013
Sweetbay officials are taking a much harder line on the kinds of seafood they’ll sell and making a big bet that customers will gravitate toward seafood certified as sustainable.
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By James Wright, SeaFood Business senior editor
10 March, 2013
The iconic Maine lobster fishery has earned Marine Stewardship Council certification as a sustainable and well-managed fishery after a rigorous five-year review process.
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By Sean Murphy, SeafoodSource online editor
10 March, 2013
A series of panel discussions at the 2013 International Boston Seafood
Show on Sunday brought to light the ongoing problem of seafood
mislabeling, and offered some suggestions on how to watch out for it.
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By Sean Murphy, SeafoodSource online editor
10 March, 2013
Want to fix overfished stocks? It will take more than quotas.
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By SeafoodSource staff
06 March, 2013
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded a grant to expand the efforts of the Fishing and Living initiative.
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By SeafoodSource staff
05 March, 2013
The European Commission is reducing the size of Spanish mackerel quotas
after determining that the nation’s fisheries have overfished their
mackerel stocks by thousands of metric tons (MT), according to a
statement from the commission.
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By SeafoodSource staff
04 March, 2013
The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute released a resolution this week
supporting the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s decision to withdraw
from the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)’s process for certification.
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By SeafoodSource staff
01 March, 2013
The two fisheries of the Dutch Oyster Association have achieved Marine Stewardship Council certification.
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By SeafoodSource staff
01 March, 2013
The Marine Stewardship Council has launched a bilingual French-English eco-label in Canada.
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By SeafoodSource staff
28 February, 2013
The European fisheries sector is speaking out in favor of a new
agreement by the European Union to ban discards, but leaders of the
sector indicated more needs to be done to address the issue.
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By SeafoodSource staff
27 February, 2013
European fisheries ministers are still debating their collective
response to a recent vote by the European Parliament to reform the
E.U.’s Common Fisheries Policy (CFP).
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By SeafoodSource staff
26 February, 2013
The North Atlantic fishery for spiny dogfish has expanded on the Marine
Stewardship Council (MSC) certification it received just last year, now
covering the offshore areas of five states.
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By SeafoodSource staff
25 February, 2013
Scotland's GBP 30 million scallop-dredging industry will be the subject
of a "wide-ranging review" by ministers in the wake of allegations that
it is wrecking the seabed and destroying fish stocks.
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By SeafoodSource staff
25 February, 2013
Sheba, the Mars-owned cat food brand, will sell entrees made from only sustainably sourced seafood by the end of 2013, the company said Monday.
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By SeafoodSource staff
25 February, 2013
A new report from the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation
(ISSF) found that most of the commercially-fished tuna stocks are
stable, but management systems are outdated or could be improved.
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By SeafoodSource staff
22 February, 2013
Food and wine retailer, Booths, which has stores in Garstang and
Longridge, has decided to stop selling dredged scallops on its fresh
fish counters and is sourcing only hand-dived British scallops from The
Ethical Shellfish Company, an award winning Hebridean dive-fishing
company with a strict fishing and environmental ethos.
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By SeafoodSource staff
22 February, 2013
Santa Monica Seafood on Friday announced it is now an ISO 14001 certified company.
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By Christine Blank, SeafoodSource contributing editor
22 February, 2013
Some European retailers have responded positively to a letter asking
them to support Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification of the
Alaska salmon fishery. However, the Alaska Seafood Marketing
Institute (ASMI) refuted the letter, saying it contains “numerous
unsubstantiated statements and misrepresentations” about Responsible
Fisheries Management (RFM) certification.
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By SeafoodSource staff
22 February, 2013
The Oregon pink shrimp fishery — the world’s first shrimp fishery to earn Marine Stewardship Council certification — has been recertified as sustainable.
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By SeafoodSource staff
21 February, 2013
Deteriorating fish stocks off the coast of East China’s Shandong province are forcing fishermen to travel increasingly farther from the shore.
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By SeafoodSource staff
21 February, 2013
The West Greenland cold water prawn trawl fishery has become the first Greenland fishery to gain Marine Stewardship Council certification.
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