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Working with farmers to monitor shrimp health in Thailand
Shrimp farmers in Surat Thani and Chumpon provinces in Thailand are actively taking the opportunity to understand more about the health status of their shrimp. I was at the recent Tha Thong Plain Shrimp Cooperative annual fair and enjoyed a few days working with enthusiastic farmers and excellent partners. During…
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Indonesia BSC control document process off to a very good start
It’s been nearly a year now since organizers of a national-level fishery improvement project (FIP) for blue swimming crab (BSC) in Indonesia took the critical step of instituting a control document. Now comes the real test: Will the supply chain participants comply with the conditions set in the document? While…
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New report highlights challenges and opportunities in Southeast Asian fishmeal
The Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) and IFFO, the Marine Ingredients Organisation, recently released a new report on Southeast Asian trawl fisheries (link to PDF here). These fisheries supply seafood for human consumption (80 percent by volume according to the report) and also are used to produce fish meal and oil used…
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Don’t stop eating fish
Earlier this month, the release of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services report on biodiversity brought with it dire news about the state of the planet’s species. The report cautioned that, unless human society embarks on a path of transformative change, as many as 1…
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Press Release
SFP praises new Moroccan anchovy FIP
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) is pleased to announce the first public posting of a new industry-led fishery improvement project (FIP) covering anchovy fishing off the coast of Morocco. The FIP is geared toward protecting local marine environments, as well as controlling and monitoring stocks. The initial FIP kick-off meeting was… -
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SFP announces Target 75 progress
The Target 75 initiative launched by Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) is halfway toward the goal of 75 percent of seafood production in key sectors classified as sustainable or improving toward sustainability by the end of 2020. This progress has been driven by increasing collaboration among industry, NGOs, governments, and other… -
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Are you a “Champion?”
This year, SFP is celebrating some real progress toward the goal of its Target 75 Initiative—to see 75 percent or more of total global seafood volumes in a series of species-specific sectors produced in a manner that is either sustainable or improving toward sustainability by the end of 2020. Recently,…
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Bakkafrost joins Ocean Disclosure Project
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) is pleased to announce that Faroese salmon farming company Bakkafrost has become a participant in the Ocean Disclosure Project (ODP). Bakkafrost has published a seafood sourcing disclosure to coincide with the publication of its latest Healthy Living Sustainability Report. The disclosure contains a list of the main… -
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Boston Blog 2019 part one: Halfway there to Target 75
SFP kicked off Seafood Expo North America 2019 with a luncheon featuring CEO Jim Cannon sharing exciting updates about the Target 75 initiative. The 50-seat room was packed to capacity as Cannon laid out what T75 was all about, and where the initiative stood. In his opening remarks, Cannon described…