Emma Desrochers

The Walton Family Foundation, in collaboration with Morning Consult, recently released a poll that found Americans would eat more seafood if they had greater knowledge of its health and environmental benefits.  

The poll’s main focus was on Americans’ views on climate change, and what solutions towards its impacts respondents preferred. Overall, the poll discovered U.S. residents are unified on climate change and see urgent

Ecuador is the first Latin American country to join the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI), a move that is aimed at giving it the lead in promoting fisheries transparency in Latin America.

FiTI is a global multi-stakeholder partnership focused on increasing transparency and collaboration in marine fisheries management. Ecuador is the seventh country to officially join FiTI, after Mauritania, Seychelles, Senegal, Cabo Verde,

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) has announced a new partnership with the Thai Union Group, one of the world’s leading seafood producers.

SFP was founded in 2006 and is a marine conservation organization working towards healthy oceans and sustainable seafood by leveraging the power of seafood buyers and retailers in the seafood supply chain. Thai Union is the world’s third largest seafood company as well as one of the largest

Building on its efforts to support the seafood industry by providing a comprehensive fishery improvement project (FIP) reporting website, FisheryProgress.org is now aiming to increase the impact of FIPs by aligning buyers with high-performing FIPs.

Launched in 2016 by FishChoice, FisheryProgress.org originally had the goal of making it easier for seafood buyers and NGO advisors to track FIP progress by providing consistent, comparable

A cold-water prawn fishing vessel has achieved Responsible Fishing Vessel Standard (RFVS) certification for the first time in the certification’s history.

The RFVS certification is a part of the Global Seafood Alliance’s Best Seafood Practices (BSP), a third-party certification program introduced in June 2021.

The RFVS certification sets standards for ensuring wild-caught seafood that has been harvested and processed in an ethical

The Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) and the University of Washington’s Hilborn Lab have released a new version of the Fishery Improvement Projects Database (FIP-DB), which includes 275 publicly recorded FIPs.

The database was created through a partnership between the Hilborn Lab and SFP. The FIP-DB is a comprehensive database of FIPs reaching back to 2003, when FIPs were first established.

“In the last two decades, FIPs

The Aquatic Life Institute (ALI) is calling for an animal welfare-based approach to be adopted by the global fishing industry.

Founded in 2019, the New York City, U.S.A.-based organization “advocate[s] for high aquatic animal welfare among key decision-makers that influence how aquatic animals are utilized and how their welfare is defined and governed.”

On Wednesday, 9 March, ALI released a new report, “Key Welfare

The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) Scientific Committee has published a new report that provides results on the yellowfin tuna stock assessment in the Indian Ocean. The report shows the stock is overfished and will require a catch reduction of at least 30 percent.

The report is the first issued by the IOTC Scientific Committee since 2018 and includes projections for reasonable likelihood of stock recovery by 2030 if the 30 percent catch

The Vung Tau multispecies trawl fishery improvement project (FIP), based in southern Vietnam, has been accepted into the MarinTrust Improver Program as part of its multispecies pilot.

This FIP is the second to be accepted into the IP’s multispecies pilot project, after the Gulf of Thailand mixed-trawl FIP. The multispecies pilot criteria focuses on complex fisheries.

The MarinTrust Improver Program aims to encourage fishmeal-processing