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The Indonesian Tuna Consortium is working directly with the Southeast Asian nation’s seafood supply chain, as well as other stakeholders, to create a more resilient, efficient, and equitable fishing ecosystem across the archipelago. The consortium – a group of organizations comprising… Read More

A new poll has found that most Americans care about sustainably produced seafood, food security, and protection of the world’s oceans.

The poll, released by the Walton Family Foundation (WFF) – a Bentonville, Arkansas, U.S.A.-based philanthropic organization established by Walmart founders Sam and Helen Walton – in honor of National Seafood Month, found that more than four out of five Americans agree that it is important to

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The prohibitive costs associated with implementing monitoring systems aboard fishing vessels recently led to herring fishermen in the U.S. state of New Jersey successfully suing to overturn the longstanding Chevron deference, dealing a blow to the power of U.S. regulators. Prior to the suit being… Read More

The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC), a New Zealand-based coalition of 115 conservation-focused NGOs, is asking the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) to suspend its certification of the country’s orange roughy fishery after the New Zealand government published new scientific evidence of… Read More

The World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) is a nonprofit organization that aims to hold companies accountable toward achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, mainly through publishing free and publicly available benchmarks on their performance. Through the release of its… Read More

The government of the Maldives has decided to stick with its 2019 ban on issuing licenses for longline fishing in waters surrounding the nation after recently weighing whether to reopen the practice. The country's annoument it might reopen longline fishing was met with backlash from conservation… Read More

The Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, California, U.S.A., has operated a world-renowned aquarium for 40 years but also has, for the past 25 years, operated the Seafood Watch program intended to guide consumers, chefs, and other buyers in determing whether the seafood they’re sourcing is sustainable.

The Seafood Watch program's red, yellow, and green rating system has also driven change by incentivizing fisheries and aquaculture operations

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The South Asian archipelagic country of Maldives has been considering whether to grant new licenses for longline fishing off the nation’s biodiverse shores, drawing criticism from NGOs and other organizations that say the practice harms vulnerable shark populations.

The Maldivian government has opened and closed longline fishing in the nation’s waters several times since foreign-flagged vessels first carried out the practice in 1985.

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The Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP), a marine conservation organization working to leverage the power of seafood buyers and retailers in every part of the seafood supply chain, recently released a sector-by-sector status update that shows there has been a general upward trend in seafood… Read More

Oceana, a Washington, D.C., U.S.A.-based ocean conservancy nonprofit, released the results of a new poll it conducted revealing Americans support stronger safeguards around the seafood they eat, including greater transparency in seafood supply chains and curtailing illegal fishing activities. The… Read More