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.


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Published on
August 1, 2024

MDPI, a Bali, Indonesia-based NGO that empowers coastal communities to carry out and maintain sustainable practices, has created a unique approach to working with small-scale fishers it says is paying off for both fishing communities and international supply chains.

The organization started as a corporate social responsibility program of the Netherlands-based seafood firm Anova Food in 2013. 

Anova saw potential in working with small-scale

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Published on
July 24, 2024

The board of trustees at Oslo, Norway-based nonprofit Trygg Mat Tracking (TMT), which provides fisheries authorities and relevant international organizations with fisheries intelligence, analysis, and capacity-building services, recently announced the appointment of Gareth Johnstone as its new executive director, effective 1 July 2024.

Before securing his new role, Johnstone was the director general at another nonprofit, WorldFish, where he

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Published on
June 24, 2024
Portland, Maine, U.S.A.-based carbon-sequestration solutions company Running Tide is closing, according to a 14 June statement from the company. Running Tide, which aimed to sink limestone-coated wood waste seeded with kelp in the ocean, then selling credits to companies interested in offsetting… Read More
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May 27, 2024
The United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Security Innovation Network (NSIN) have announced 10 finalists for the Global Fishing Forecast Grand Challenge. The challenge, launched in January, aims to incentivize the creation of innovative approaches that help… Read More
Published on
May 10, 2024
A letter signed by more than 70 environmental, animal welfare, and community groups from 18 countries criticizes the Global Seafood Alliance and its new Best Aquaculture Practices certification standard for what the signatories say amounts to greenwashing industrial salmon farming. The letter,… Read More