Emma Desrochers is a freelance journalist based in Waialua, Hawaii, who writes about fisheries and sustainability. She graduated from Yale University in June 2021 with an undergraduate degree in environmental studies and mechanical engineering. She has contributed to the environmental conservation field through internships located in Ecuador, Thailand, and Hawaii.
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The deadline to implement the GlobalG.A.P. chain of custody (CoC) standard throughout supply chains is 31 December, 2023, as starting on 1 January, 2023, all parties that handle loose, unpacked products originating from GlobalG.A.P.-certified production processes must have a valid CoC certification in order to maintain the certification's validity through the sale of those products.
GlobalG.A.P.'s aquaculture certification
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The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) is urging the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) to protect bigeye and yelowfin stocks by ensuring all its commission members are fully implementing conservation measures.
ISSF published a position statement ahead of the IATTC's upcoming annual meeting acknowledging the IATTC's tuna-conservation efforts while also pushing for it to follow through on its enacted
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The Association of Large Freezer Tuna Vessels (Asociación de Grandes Atuneros Congeladores, AGAC) has achieved the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification for its skipjack tuna in the Indian Ocean. There are 14 purse-seine vessels that compose the AGAC fleet in the Indian Ocean, in which the certification applies to all of those.
“Congratulations to AGAC for this achievement in the Indian Ocean, which is part of wider
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The Aquatic Life Institute (ALI) has launched a publicly available benchmark tool to evaluate the aquatic animal welfare standards of global aquaculture certification schemes.
Until recently, individual animal welfare considerations have been excluded from global aquaculture certifications. The new aquaculture certification benchmark tool, according to ALI, analyzes current welfare requirements and highlights areas of opportunity for welfare
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The Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) has released results for an assessment of government transparency on Mexico’s marine fisheries sector, finding over half the information is difficult access online – but that the government shows clear interest in relaying information.
The assessment was conducted in collaboration with Causa Natura, a Mexican-based company focused on research to promote sustainable management of
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The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has released the first global sustainability reporting standard for all companies in the production of crops, animals, and seafood for disclosure of shared economic, environmental, and social impacts.
GRI is an initiative organized by the Global Sustainability Standards Board, an independent, international organization that provides standards for sustainability reporting. The GRI standards are designed
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MDA Ltd. announced at the 2022 UN Ocean Conference it’s providing the Global Fishing Watch (GFW) access to the company’s RADARSAT-2 satellite radar archive to effectively combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing activities. This archive represents 14 years of historical record of the Earth, with more than 970,000 images that include over 26 billion square kilometers of oceanic synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data.
The
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The Argentine red shrimp fishery has moved closer to Marine Stewardship Council certification.
The country's institute of fisheries, INIDEP, has developed a limit reference point for shrimp stock – a point at which fishing is no longer considered sustainable. Below that point there is a higher probability the stock is impaired and will not be able to replenish itself. The move is a requirement for MSC certification.
In addition to the
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Rare Foods Australia (RFA) has been awarded Marine Stewardship Council certification for its wild enhanced greenlip abalone fishery.
The certification makes it the first greenlip abalone fishery to be certified worldwide, and the twelfth Western Australian fishery to gain MSC certification. RFA is also the second enhanced fishery in Western Australia to gain MSC certification, alongside the silver-lipped pearl oyster fishery.
"World
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Five companies – Bay Hill Seafood Sales, Corporacion Pesquera del Itsmo SA (CORPEISA – Alfa Gamma Group), Panalang Group, Tasty Seafood, Bajamar Seafood, have announced the relaunch of the Panama mahi and tuna longline fishery improvement project (FIP).
The relaunch of the FIP, in coordination with the Center for Development and Sustainable Fisheries (CeDePesca) – hopes to continue the progress achieved by
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