News covering global seafood environment & sustainability issues.
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stable, but management systems are outdated or could be improved.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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By SeafoodSource staff
21 February, 2013
A collection of mussel farmers and primary processing facilities in
Newfoundland have become the first in North America to receive the
Canadian Organic Aquaculture Standard certification.
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By SeafoodSource staff
20 February, 2013
U.K. grocery chain Waitrose is pledging to carry canned tuna certified
as sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), and put the MSC
logo on its store-brand tuna.
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By SeafoodSource staff
20 February, 2013
Australis Aquaculture, the world’s largest barramundi producer, has received GlobalGAP certification for its Vietnam farm operations.
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By SeafoodSource staff
19 February, 2013
New Zealand’s Cloudy Bay Clams will now carry the Friend of the Sea
seal of approval, after getting certification for the company’s surf
clam harvesting operation.
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By SeafoodSource staff
19 February, 2013
The Russian Pollock Sustainability Alliance Companies issued a statement
this week supporting Intertek Moody’s decision to recommend Marine
Stewardship Council (MSC) certification, despite objections from two
stakeholders.
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By SeafoodSource staff
19 February, 2013
After one of the West Coast’s most valuable commercial fisheries was declared an economic disaster in 2000, California and other Pacific states saw more boats being sold and more fishermen looking for work.
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By SeafoodSource staff
15 February, 2013
A major seafood company has come out in support of U.K. celebrity
chef-turned-activist Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s program, “Fish
Fight,” spotlighting problems in the seafood industry, which appeared on
British television this week.
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By SeafoodSource staff
15 February, 2013
The Marine Stewardship Council announced London restaurant Moshi Moshi has put the world’s first QR-code sushi on its menu.
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By SeafoodSource staff
14 February, 2013
The newest installment of U.K. celebrity chef-turned-conservationist
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s “Fish Fight” series has yet to even air on
television, but already the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation (SFF) is
speaking out against it, fearing it will present an inaccurate and
negative picture of the scallop fishing industry.
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By SeafoodSource staff
14 February, 2013
Several conservation groups in Canada and the U.S. are backing the
Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)’s ecolabel and certification program,
by petitioning European salmon retailers to support MSC-certified fish
caught in Alaska.
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By SeafoodSource staff
14 February, 2013
Canadian seafood company High Liner Foods has pledged to make sure
100 percent of its wild and aquaculture seafood products are caught
sustainably by the end of 2013.
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By SeafoodSource staff
14 February, 2013
Earlier this week, NPR aired a three-part investigation of the Marine Stewardship Council on Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
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By SeafoodSource staff
13 February, 2013
Rebecca Weel pushes a baby stroller with her 18-month-old up to the seafood case at Whole Foods, near ground zero in New York. As she peers at shiny fillets of salmon, halibut and Chilean sea bass labeled “certified sustainable,” Weel believes that if she purchases this seafood, she will help protect the world's oceans from overfishing.
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By SeafoodSource staff
12 February, 2013
Celebrity chef-turned-campaigning conservationist Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall rides the wave of success from his Fish Fight campaign to take his battle into international waters for his new three-part Channel 4 series Hugh's Fish Fight 2: Save Our Seas.
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By SeafoodSource staff
12 February, 2013
The World Wildlife Fund has submitted a formal objection to the proposed Marine Stewardship Council certification of the Russian pollock fishery.
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By SeafoodSource staff
11 February, 2013
The At-Sea Processors Association on Monday announced it will file a Notice of Objection to the certification determination contained in a final report on the Russia Sea of Okjotsk (SOO) pollock fishery.
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By SeafoodSource staff
11 February, 2013
U.K. retailer Morrisons has announced a series of new commitments developed in partnership with Seafish’s Responsible Fishing Scheme (RFS) as part of its seafood policy.
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By SeafoodSource staff
11 February, 2013
Ocean conservation group Oceana threw its support behind U.S. Sen. Jay
Rockefeller, D-W.V., and two new laws he has proposed to fight pirate
fishing and keep illegally-caught fish out of U.S. markets.
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