Ned Daly

Ned Daly

Sustainability Specialist/Contributing Editor

Ned Daly is a sustainability specialist/contributing editor with Diversified Communications. He has worked on sustainable markets in a variety of resources for 25 years. Ned worked in seafood for the last decade with SeaWeb, Previously he was director of RugMark International (now GoodWeave), a certification program for child-labor-free rugs coming from Southeast Asia. He also served as chief operating officer for the Forest Stewardship Council in the United States, managing relationships with industry leaders and a diversity of key stakeholders including conservation nongovernment organizations, policymakers and industry trade associations. Ned has also worked on sustainable markets in the agricultural sector and the relationship between resource extraction and ecosystem health. He lives in Alfred, Maine.


Author Archive

Published on
November 10, 2025
Ned Daly is the lead for Seafood2030, a project that highlights the intentional design and evaluation of global sustainable seafood systems, as well as the collective impact of sustainability efforts in seafood. Trapped value develops in a system when risk or inefficiencies impede value delivery. Such examples of releasing trapped value at a company level include when a business moves from a paper-based system to a digital system or from a… Read More
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October 10, 2025

Rich Boot is the CEO of seafood sustainability nonprofit FishChoice, which manages FisheryProgress, a site that tracks the progress of global fishery improvement projects (FIPs). Previously, Boot served as a board member for the Conservation Alliance for Seafood Solutions. He has also served as the director of operations for nonprofit FishWise.

SeafoodSource sat down with Boot to discuss the global FIP landscape and how FisheryProgress is

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September 12, 2025
Tom Pickerell is the global director for the World Resources Institute’s Ocean Program and head of the secretariat for the institute’s High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy – a group comprising 18 world leaders working to organize initiatives that promote ocean… Read More
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August 15, 2025
Electronic monitoring (EM) is a rapidly evolving technology in the seafood industry that collects data such as fish catch totals, fishing effort, and bycatch in order to ensure sustainability aboard vessels. Certain governments and regional fishery management organizations are making the… Read More
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July 30, 2025
Pedro Ferreiro is the fisheries governance and livelihoods director at the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP).  With a background in marine biology and years of experience working with Spanish fisheries and aquaculture operations, Ferreiro now works as a liaison between small-scale… Read More
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July 24, 2025
New York City, New York, U.S.A.-based Acme Smoked Fish sells approximately 20 million pounds of smoked and pickled seafood products per year and possesses strict sourcing and processing standards. The company has processing facilities in Chile, Denmark, and the U.S. state of North Carolina, which… Read More
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June 3, 2025
Funding cuts that the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has made to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have affected several seafood projects across the globe, including components of a nonprofit in the Philippines aimed at advancing sustainable fisheries… Read More
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May 30, 2025
The Mexican Council for the Promotion of Fishery and Aquaculture Products (COMEPESCA) has been promoting the responsible harvest and consumption of legally sourced Mexican fishery and aquaculture products since 2003. The organization includes 50 commercial members working to counteract negative… Read More
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May 30, 2025
The United Nations has released the Ocean Investment Protocol – a guide for investors and financial institutions to support a healthy and resilient ocean and ocean economy. The UN developed the protocol to provide clarity on how financial institutions, insurers, ocean industries,… Read More
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May 14, 2025
Ocean Outcomes, a Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.-based fisheries nonprofit, works with a wide range of stakeholders, including small-scale fishers, to create and implement science-based initiatives that promote sustainability across seafood supply chains.  SeafoodSource spoke with Ocean Outcomes… Read More