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Certification is not needed to document social sustainability

Norway.- “The Norwegian model” with third-party cooperation documents in itself that the fishing industry in Norway is operated in a socially sustainable way. There is ...

High demand supports Vietnam shrimp exports

Vietnam.- Favorable factors in the first months of the year such as the weather, high yield, high demand and stable shrimp prices facilitated Vietnam’s shrimp ...

Big fish produce disproportionately bigger eggs and more of them

Panama.- A new paper in Science shows that big female fish are disproportionately important to maintaining populations. The research suggests that protection of large, reproductive ...

Southern Shrimp Alliance Requests that Additional Tariffs Be Placed on All Imports of Seafood Produced through Chinese Aquaculture

USA.- Today, the Southern Shrimp Alliance submitted a letter to the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) supporting the request made by Senator ...

New Annual Report shows IFFO’s focus on data and scientific evidence

IFFO, The Marine Ingredients Organisation, released its second Annual Report, giving a succinct overview of the group’s work with the aim to engage and inform ...

Bridging a trust gap in Chilean salmon industry

Chile.- A project between major salmon farming companies and local communities in Chile is helping foster sustainable aquaculture practices. Efforts to rebuild relations with the ...

AMBI, AZTI’s tool for the ecological assessment of the marine environment, is being used as a worldwide reference approach

Pasaia, Spain.- Throughout its history AZTI has developed diverse methods for the assessment of the ecological and environmental status of the marine environment. Among these, ...

Can these Berkeley students make Mexico’s devil fish the next big thing?

By Will Kane USA.- In parts of rural Mexico, the invasive diablo – devil – fish, a brown, ugly creature with spines, had all but ...

Fish farming brings food and nutrition security to rural Sierra Leone

Tonkolili district, located in northern Sierra Leone, is one of the hardest hit by child stunting due to high levels of food insecurity and malnutrition. ...

Fish in schools can take it easy

Paris, France.- Using a new computer model, researchers at the Ecole Centrale de Marseille and CNRS have shown that a fish expends less energy when ...