News covering global seafood environment & sustainability issues.
By SeafoodSource staff
13 January, 2010
The Alaska pollock fishery is one step closer to Marine Stewardship Council recertification after receiving the certification body’s blessing.
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By Neil Ray, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Bangkok
12 January, 2010
Dr. Lida Pet-Soede, head of the WWF Coral Triangle Program, talks to SeafoodSource about the upcoming summit’s objectives.
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By Chris Dove, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Malaga, Spain
08 January, 2010
The country is aiming to achieve balanced, sustainable exploitation of the species.
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By SeafoodSource staff
07 January, 2010
The public-private partnership between industry, FAO, Global Environment Facility and World Bank focuses on sustainable seafood.
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By SeafoodSource staff
06 January, 2010
The Better World Shopping Guide ranks the New Hampshire supplier as the best environmental choice in the seafood industry.
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By SeafoodSource staff
06 January, 2010
The World Wildlife Fund is calling on consumers to sign a petition asking the restaurant group that purchased a giant bluefin tuna to stop the practice of using the species as a promotional gimmick.
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By April Forristall, SeafoodSource assistant editor
05 January, 2010
Catalina Offshore Products, which supplies sea urchin and sushi products, now runs on about 90 percent solar power.
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By Steven Hedlund, SeafoodSource editor
22 December, 2009
Consumers will lose confidence in seafood eco-labels and buying guides until fishery certification schemes seek greater standardization and harmonization, says the industry organization.
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By SeafoodSource staff
22 December, 2009
Hook-and-line fishermen from the Indian Ocean archipelago nation establish a labeling program in partnership with the French Sea Bass Association.
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By SeafoodSource staff
21 December, 2009
According to a new University of Stirling report, seafood eco-labels and buying guides are inconsistent and therefore confusing to consumers.
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By Nicki Holmyard, SeafoodSource contributing editor
16 December, 2009
The Dutch Producers’ Organization Mussel Culture will seek MSC certification for its blue mussel harvest in the Waddenzee and Zeeland deltas.
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By Mercedes Grandin, SeafoodSource contributing editor
16 December, 2009
The environmental community applauds the decision to prohibit porbeagle shark fishing and slash the spurdog shark quota by 90 percent.
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By SeafoodSource staff
15 December, 2009
International Seafood Sustainability Foundation pushed for a temporary closure of the purse seine tuna fishery in the western and central Pacific.
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By SeafoodSource staff
14 December, 2009
A panel of fisheries experts convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization failed to reach a consensus regarding international trade of Atlantic bluefin tuna.
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By Mercedes Grandin, SeafoodSource contributing editor
14 December, 2009
Shark Trust, Shark Alliance and other environmental NGOs are pressuring the European Council of Ministers to protect spurdog and porbeagle sharks.
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By SeafoodSource staff
11 December, 2009
The more than 82 metric tons of seafood served at the 2012 summer Olympic Games in London will be "demonstrably sustainable."
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By SeafoodSource staff
11 December, 2009
Red drum and goldlined seabream from Ferme de Mahebourg proved sustainable following an independent audit.
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By Chris Dove, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Malaga, Spain
10 December, 2009
The region sees the Slow Fish movement as an opportunity to support one of its last line-fishing villages — Kremmervika in the Lofoten Islands.
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By SeafoodSource staff
09 December, 2009
Bandon Pacific, a subsidiary of Pacific Seafood Group, is appealing a violation and resulting fine from the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality.
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By SeafoodSource staff
07 December, 2009
The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation says the temporarily closure is necessary to protect western and central Pacific bigeye and yellowfin tuna stocks.
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By SeafoodSource staff
07 December, 2009
The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute board will take up the matter again at its meeting in early March.
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By SeafoodSource staff
03 December, 2009
Alaska legislators and officials fear NOAA’s proposed Cook Inlet beluga whale critical habitat could restrict fishing activity in the area.
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By SeafoodSource staff
02 December, 2009
The first-ever roundtable discussion aims to identify the needs and opportunities for industry leadership and collaboration on ocean stewardship issues.
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By SeafoodSource staff
02 December, 2009
Fishing subsidies are contributing to overfishing and ultimately climate change, says Oceana.
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By Chris Dove, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Malaga, Spain
02 December, 2009
The Greens/European Free Alliance is wary of the EU’s fisheries partnership agreements with developing countries.
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