Year in Review
Highlights from 2025
Prioritizing Impact
In everything we do at SFP, we focus on impact – on the water, at the farm, for the ecosystem, in the community. Our work brings industry, NGOs, governments, fishers, scientists, and academics together to find pragmatic, science-based, scalable solutions that benefit nature, industry, and people. Our 2024-25 annual report, Prioritizing Impact, elaborates on this approach and offers highlights from our work over the year.
Expanding our network of partners and collaborators
We welcomed Worldwide Fishing Company (WOFCO) to the SFP global partner network. WOFCO is a leader in the European seafood sector and has been an active member of SFP’s Global Squid Supply Chain Roundtable (SR) for many years.
We signed an MOU with Comepesca, a non-profit civil association that promotes collaboration in Mexico’s fishing and aquaculture sector, formalizing a new phase of collaboration to strengthen the domestic market for responsible seafood in Mexico while expanding the reach of existing sustainability initiatives.
We formalized our collaboration with MarinTrust, the leading independent certification program for the responsible sourcing, traceability, and production of marine ingredients, through an MOU that will strengthen our collaborative efforts to promote responsible practices across the marine ingredient value chain.
We signed an MOU with Ocean Outcomes to collaborate on expanding electronic monitoring, reducing bycatch in longline tuna fisheries, strengthening key seafood supply chains, and building capacity in small-scale fisheries.
We joined forces with Global Fishing Watch (GFW) and the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) to improve transparency in global tuna fisheries. The collaboration will integrate information from all three organizations’ tools and databases to help buyers more holistically assess the compliance and environmental impacts of their tuna supply chains.
Addressing bycatch of non-target species in fisheries
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4th-annual Bycatch Solutions Showcase
Our 4th-annual Bycatch Solutions Showcase, at Seafood Expo North America in Boston, brought together representatives of projects that have already been funded through the Bycatch Solutions Hub, and others that are currently posted and seeking funding, with industry representatives looking to support bycatch-reduction efforts. -
On-demand gear workshop
Together with the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium, we hosted a workshop for the seafood industry, harvesters, gear innovators, and scientists on reducing entanglements of marine wildlife in pot and trap fisheries, while at the same time supporting local lobster and crab industries. Participants also traveled to Cape Cod to tour the Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) Gear Lending Library and see an on-water demonstration of on-demand lobster gear. -
Reducing bycatch in tuna fisheries
Our industry briefing on bycatch and data collection in Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)-certified tuna fisheries highlights conditions related to endangered, threatened, and protected (ETP) species, observer coverage rates, and electronic monitoring projects. SFP is using information from this analysis to develop Vessel Analysis Reports for our partners, addressing risks associated with IUU fishing and the extent to which fleets employ tuna-specific best practices.
Continuing to expand the science behind sustainable seafood
Annual sustainability overview of reduction fisheries
Annual sustainability overview of reduction fisheries
The 15th edition of our reduction fisheries report showed a noticeable decline in sustainability performance of key fisheries used primarily for the production of marine ingredients, highlighting the ongoing need for stronger industry engagement in, and support for, fisheries improvement.
Fishery Improvement Projects Database
Fishery Improvement Projects Database
SFP and the Hilborn Lab at the University of Washington launched the latest update of our Fishery Improvement Projects Database (FIP-DB), a valuable tool for industry, NGOs, scientists, and government agencies looking to understand what makes a FIP effective.
Advancing gender equity in the global seafood sector
Throughout 2025, SFP partnered with Seafood and Gender Equality (SAGE) to host a multi-part interactive webinar series about SAGE’s Gender Equality Dialogues (GED) program and ways that industry leaders can come together to advance solutions. The next phase of our partnership will include piloting SAGE’s Gender Equity Index tool to assess SFP’s internal operations.
More dispatches from 2025
- Throughout the year, SFP staff members attended and participated in multiple sustainable seafood and industry events around the world. Check out our Events page for more details and highlights.
- SFP staffers have also been blogging about their travels and their thoughts on the future of sustainable seafood. Visit our Blog page to see what they have to say.
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