SFP – FishSource Wild-Capture profiles
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What is it?
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) is a US-registered nonprofit that operates globally to rebuild depleted fish stocks and reduce the environmental and social impacts of fishing and fish farming. The organization works by engaging fishery stakeholders and seafood businesses throughout the supply chain to promote the sustainable production of seafood.
- Endangered, threatened, and protected (ETP) species, other bycatch:
- Impacts on seabed habitat; and,
- Overall ecosystem impacts of the fishery.
What is it?
FishSource wild capture is a publicly available online resource on the sustainability status of fisheries and fish stocks. FishSource wild capture consolidates and summarizes the main scientific and technical information needed by seafood buyers to gauge the sustainability of the fisheries they are sourcing from and take actions to help improve them.
How to use it?
FishSource wild capture profiles and scores provide users with simplified indicators of how fisheries are performing according to globally accepted measures of sustainability.
The management quality scores reflect the precaution of the management strategy, how closely managers follow scientific advice, and how strong fishers’ compliance with management measures. The stock health scores evaluate the current health of the resource and its future health: its overfished and overfishing potential respectively.
Scores on environmental impacts of the fishery are currently being rolled out, and evaluate impacts to:
The scores are each calculated on a scale from zero to ten, with information obtained from reliable, publicly available sources of information.