Posts Tagged ‘Marine Stewardship Council’
Salmon offers sustainable breakthrough – Tesco chief
THE drive towards a more sustainable future in food production presented great opportunities for fish farming, a Tesco chief told the North Atlantic Seafood Forum (NASF) in Bergen. Giles Bolton, the director of Responsible Sourcing at Britain’s largest supermarket chain, which has more than 6,000 stores and convenience shops, told the large international gathering that people should be…
Read MoreBlow to Scotland as cod loses blue label
NORTH Sea cod is to lose its ‘blue tick’ sustainability certification in a move that will be seen as a blow to the Scottish fleet in particular. The Marine Stewardship Council says there are serious concerns about stocks, which are below safe biological levels, and this is why it has suspended the blue label certificate…
Read MoreFish Update Briefing, Friday, November 2
£1m FUND TO HELP SMALL FISHERIES THE Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has launched a new £1 million fund to help small scale fisheries become more sustainable. It says almost three-quarters of global seafood is caught in the developing world, where growing demand and overfishing is pushing many stocks into decline. As such, the certification scheme…
Read MoreFish Update Briefing, Friday, March 9
GLOBAL FISHING FLEET ON COMPUTER TRACK COMPUTERS are helping to track the activities of the world\’s fishing fleets, and are showing that more than half of the seas and oceans are now subject to industrial exploitation. The study has been led by David Kroodsma from Global Fishing Watch, who has published the results in Science Magazine,…
Read MoreMonkfish world first for Iceland
ICELAND is celebrating becoming the first country in the world to have its monkfish stocks officially certified by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). The popular high-end restaurant species – better known in Iceland as known as anglerfish – is managed by ISF (Iceland Sustainable Fisheries) and this is the eighth time where ISF has been…
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