Ned Daly is a sustainability strategist with Diversified Communications. He has worked on sustainable markets in a variety of resources for 25 years. Ned worked in seafood for the last decade with SeaWeb, Previously he was director of RugMark International (now GoodWeave), a certification program for child-labor-free rugs coming from Southeast Asia. He also served as chief operating officer for the Forest Stewardship Council in the United States, managing relationships with industry leaders and a diversity of key stakeholders including conservation nongovernment organizations, policymakers and industry trade associations. Ned has also worked on sustainable markets in the agricultural sector and the relationship between resource extraction and ecosystem health. He lives in Alfred, Maine.
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Precompetitive collaborations have become an important platform for companies in the seafood industry to effectively address sustainability issues.
These essential alliances allow groups of companies to tackle complex problems that inhibit the development or delivery of products and services.
Sea Pact is one such precompetitive collaboration that’s doing more than simply helping its members navigate the complexity of sustainable seafood;
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The Portland, Maine, U.S.A.-based Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI), an independent marine nonprofit dedicated to studying the Gulf of Maine ecosystem and the people who depend on it, recently announced the hiring of Glenn Prickett as its next CEO. Prickett, who was previously president and CEO of the World Environment Center in Washington, D.C., has 35 years of environmental, climate, and business development experience working with NGOs,
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When asked what the biggest challenge or barrier is to increasing engagement with sustainable initiatives, seafood industry stakeholders overwhelmingly reference the complexity of issues, organizations, tools, and projects involved in sustainable seafood.
Many seafood companies view seafood sustainability as a bewildering jumble of organizations, often loosely connected by niche issues or geography. This perspective provides little understanding
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A number of changes are underway in Japan’s seafood industry. A 2020 fisheries law significantly changed Japan’s fisheries management, and Japanese producers and harvesters are increasingly adopting measures to provide assurances of responsible supply geared both toward the domestic market – where consumer interest in sustainable seafood is growing – and for exports, which have increased as domestic consumption has
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Tom Pickerell was recently named the director of the international fisheries program at The Pew Charitable Trusts. Pickerell previously worked in as executive director of the Global Tuna Alliance and global tuna director for the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership. He is also the founder of Tomalamola Consulting, a seafood sustainability consultancy.
SeafoodSource: Why did you want to join The Pew Charitable Trusts?
Pickerell: Pew is an
… Read More Ned Daly is a sustainability strategist with Diversified Communications. He has worked on sustainable markets in a variety of resources for 25 years, including a decade with SeaWeb.
Over the last 20 years, the seafood industry has made significant improvements in the management and sustainability of seafood resources. This progress is paying off, as seafood is increasingly recognized for its positive contributions to human health and to
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Improving the sustainability of supply chains and operations can seem like a daunting task for companies working in the seafood industry due to the variety of issues, fisheries, tools, projects, and governance and management models involved in sustainable seafood. It can be especially challenging for mid-supply chain companies that are often caught between demands coming from the retail end of the chain and challenges of implementation on the
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Quentin Marchais serves as the lead for food systems, oceans, and land-use efforts with ClientEarth – the driving force behind the development of the Sustainable Seafood Coalition UK, a precompetitive collaboration comprising U.K. retailers and seafood companies.
SeafoodSource interviewed Quentin Marchais, who previously led ClientEarth’s seafood work in Spain, to discuss how the Spanish seafood and retail sectors are advancing
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The Seafood Ethics Action Alliance (SEA Alliance) has initiated a campaign asking labor ministers in countries that have not yet ratified the ILO Working in Fishing Convention 188 (C.188) to push their governments to do so.
The SEA Alliance is a seafood industry pre-competitive collaboration whose members include 11 of the largest supermarket chains in the United Kingdom, collectively representing 95 percent of all retail seafood sales in the
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Many fishers working in the global seafood industry face living income gaps, a plight sustainability advocates have been determined to irradicate. Susanna Balaguer Serra of the Impact Institute Sustainability Consultant Susanna Balaguer Serra is working to raise awareness about the reality of underearning in the seafood sector. She will be a featured speaker for the Seafood Expo Global conference session, “Supply chain equity: Value
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