Allgemein

Blue Marine Foundation, November 09, 2023 Blue Marine Foundation has published the results of a six-month investigation with BLOOM Association and Greenpeace UK. The report, titled “The UK’s Tuna Blind Spot”, has found huge disparities in sourcing policies for canned [...]

SeafoodSource, October 10, 2023 In October, The Outlaw Ocean Project, a nonprofit journalism organisation, released a report in The New Yorker shedding light on forced labour in the Chinese seafood industry. They found that over 1000 Uyghur, an ethnic minority, [...]

The Death Label / Le Label De La Mort A new member report, but Bloom Association was released in September. This report “The Death Label - The MSC’s fake sustainability but true destruction of tuna populations” dives into the shortcomings [...]

Seafood Source, September 18 2023. The New Zealand orange roughy, which was recertified by MSC in 2022, has been a species of concern for us due to a history of poor management and uncertainty about the population.  Recently, New Zealand [...]

Watch the webinar here Webinar description: “Globally, thousands of companies, government and intergovernmental agencies, NGOs, and other seafood and ocean stakeholders are working to improve the sustainability of seafood resources and supply chains. Seafood2030 looks at how efficiently this system [...]

The MSC has announced several changes to their Board of Trustees including a new Chair, and several new board members. Sadly, the newly elected chair, Hartwig Schefer, passed away suddenly in May. Follow the links below to learn more about [...]

The Tunacons Foundation has been granted a 60,000 USD grant to better understand silky shark survival rates from interactions with purse seines. The Tunacons Foundation is run by industry to promote sustainability in their fisheries, many of which are MSC-certified.  [...]

Shark Guardian, March 30 2023 The information below is from the Shark Guardian website. Shark Guardian first exposed these negligent and illegal practices in the Western Central Pacific Ocean in May 2022 (Slipping Through the Net), but a lack of [...]

IntraFish March 17 2023 There have been several recent class action lawsuits in the United States against the eco-labels for false claims, in an attempt to halt greenwashing, but labels such as the MSC. This article focuses on the lawsuit [...]

Protecting Ocean Wildlife - Reducing Bycatch in Pacific Ocean Longline Tuna Fisheries, Sustainable Fisheries Partnership “New research from Sustainable Fisheries Partnership highlights the impacts of commercial tuna longline fishing on endangered, threatened, and protected (ETP) species in the Western Central [...]