Emma Desrochers

The Global Seafood Alliance (GSA) and the Responsible Fisheries Management (RFM) certification program have agreed to a memorandum of understanding with the goal of reducing certification costs and promoting market options for  certified seafood.

Both entities will remain separate in regards to ownership, communications, and funding. But the agreement will result in a reduction of the number of audits required and number of certification

Greenpeace USA has given 15 out of 16 of the largest U.S. grocers a failing grade on addressing environmental sustainability and human rights issues in their tuna sourcing.

Its latest report on the subject, “The High Cost of Cheap Tuna,” released in February 2023, gave only Aldi receiving a passing grade. The report was issued as part of a global campaign to protect and conserve tuna stocks by changing consumer attitudes and

There is a growing awareness across the global seafood industry of the importance of reducing bycatch. But change remains stubbornly hard to come by, according to International Seafood Consulting Group Fisheries Expert Petri Suuronen.

“It is evident that the harsh circumstances and the complex reality faced by commercial fishers often make it a challenging undertaking to adopt bycatch-reduction technologies. That is, the solutions defined

Global consensus is building around the viability of harvest strategies for fisheries management, according to The Ocean Foundation International Fisheries Conservation Project Director Shana Miller.

Harvest strategies, also known as management procedures, are pre-agreed frameworks for making fisheries management decisions based on a proactive approach designed to achieve long-term sustainability for the fishery. According to an Ocean Foundation

NOAA Fisheries observers on the U.S. West Coast are moving to the use of tablet-based electronic systems to gather data on fishing vessels, replacing the outmoded pencil-and-paper system previously used.

Two of these systems are the ORCA 1 and 2 systems used by the West Coast Regional Observer Program and OPTECS system used by the West Coast Groundfish Observer Program. 

Eric Brasseur, an electrical electronics technician, who helped to

A team of researchers at the University of California-Santa Barbara has issued seven recommendations to aid fisheries management organizations adapt to the impacts of climate change.

The recommendations, published in a research paper titled “Harvest control rules used in U.S. federal fisheries management and implications for climate resilience,” include a focus on harvest control rules (HCRs) with pre-agreed guidelines for how much

The adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Biodiversity Framework at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) on 19 December, 2022, in Montreal, Canada could have a broad impact on seafood industry.

The framework involves four goals and 23 action-oriented targets to achieve preservation and effective conservation management of 30 percent of the globe’s terrestrial, inland water, and coastal and marine areas by 2030, a goal pushed by

FisheryProgress, a major backer of FIP development as part of its work supporting the sustainable seafood movement, is calling on more seafood companies to invest in FIP development to ensure they are sourcing sustainably managed seafood – while also getting a financial benefit from customers increasingly seeking environmentally friendly products. 

Launched in 2016, the FisheryProgress.com website currently reports on more than 96