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 with
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
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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.
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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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The first production site of the Mauritanian small pelagic fishery and an Indian sardine oil fishery improvement project have had their first facilities accepted into the MarinTrust Improver Program.
The MarinTrust certification program, formerly known as IFFO RS, is a global marine ingredient standard for responsible supply, with requirements based on the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries. These include
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Regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) play an important, though sometimes opaque, role in fisheries management and governance. These international organizations control fishing quotas and adopt and manage protective measures in geographical areas of the ocean or for specific species.
This article is the last in a four-part series covering the role regional fisheries management organizations in the global seafood trade. The series
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Regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) play an important, though sometimes opaque, role in fisheries management and governance. These international organizations control fishing quotas and adopt and manage protective measures in geographical areas of the ocean or for specific species.
This article is the third in a four-part series covering the role regional fisheries management organizations in the global seafood trade. The series
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