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    SFP praises new Yucatan octopus FIP

    Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) is pleased to announce the first public posting of a new industry-led fishery improvement project (FIP) covering octopus fishing off the coast of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico. The FIP is listed on the Fishery Progress website as the Mexico Yucatan octopus—drift rod and line FIP. The…

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    SFP’s 2018 Annual Report shows sustainability progress

    Sustainable Fishery Partnership(SFP) today released its annual report for 2018, which demonstrates significant advances in fishery improvement—the report can be found online as a PDF download. Among other signs of progress, SFP notes in the report that the number of fishery improvement projects (FIPs) supported by SFP’s supply chain roundtables (SRs)…

  • Press Release

    SFP announces new industry partner: Grupo Unión Martín

    Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) is pleased to announce that Canary Islands-based seafood processor and distributor Unión Martín Grupo has become SFP’s newest partner. As a new partner, Unión Martín strongly believes in SFP’s Target 75 initiative, which asks industry stakeholders to support the goal of seeing 75 percent or more of…

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    SFP E-News June 2019

  • Blog Post

    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…
    Shrimp

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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…
    Brad holding a blue swimming crab

  • Blog Post

    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…
    Fishmeal in market

  • Blog Post

    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…
    Fish swimming underwater

  • 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…