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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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  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…

  

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  Boston Blog part two: SRs and more

  Editor’s note: This is part two of Sean’s recap of SFP’s activities in Boston during Seafood Expo North America. You can read part one here. SFP staff held meetings throughout the weekend leading into the show, focusing on various supply chain roundtables (SRs). Here is a sampling of what took…

  

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  Tesco joins Ocean Disclosure Project

  Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) is pleased to announce that UK retailer Tesco has become the newest participant in the Ocean Disclosure Project (ODP). Tesco has published two seafood disclosures, containing a list of the main wild-catch fisheries from which Tesco sourced in 2017 and 2018, along with information on fishery management,…