Environment & Sustainability

U.S. Commissioner to ICCAT and Director of NOAA Fisheries Office of International Affairs and Seafood Inspection Alexa Cole led a U.S. effort to address sustainability issues at the most-recent ICCAT meeting.

US effort on transshipment, labor, and stateless vessels measures results in ICCAT action

January 25, 2022

Bangkok, Thailand-based food giant CP Foods (CPF) plans to put an end to its use of coal at its two aquafeed plants in Thailand by the fourth quarter of 2022.

CP Foods pledges phase-out of coal use at aquafeed mills

January 25, 2022

Fishermen tend to their boat in Peru.

CFI-CF launches global knowledge competition to combat overfishing

January 25, 2022

Blacktip sharks being weighed.

Make Stewardship Count Coalition raises concerns about new MSC standard

January 24, 2022

The International Pole and Line Foundation (IPNLF) has launched its Sourcing Transparency Platform (STP), an online portal designed to increase transparency in the tuna supply chain.

IPNLF introduces Sourcing Transparency Platform for tuna supply chains

January 21, 2022

Sea Pact has hired former Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Deputy Division Director and Markets Program Director Sam Grimley as its inaugural executive director.

Sam Grimley appointed as executive director of Sea Pact

January 20, 2022

The Association of Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers (GAPP) was awarded a 2021 Ocean Champion Award.

Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers named 2021 MSC Ocean Champion

January 20, 2022

A new U.K.-based foundation established by some of the world’s foremost experts on sturgeon has the goal of protecting the species from a rise in the fraudulent marketing of caviar.

New foundation aims to curb pervasive marketing fraud in caviar trade

January 19, 2022

China has marked the first successful trade in carbon credits from the aquaculture sector.

China completes first carbon credits trade from aquaculture sequestration pilot

January 18, 2022