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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Longline-caught albacore and yellowfin tuna from the Solomon Islands has achieved Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification, thanks in part to a coordinated effort led by global tuna company Tri Marine to improve the sustainability of the fishery.
This latest certification is in addition to two other certifications Tri Marine holds for pole-and-line and purse-seine skipjack and yellowfin in the region. The certificate marks the first
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Maruto Suisan Co. Ltd., a company based in the city of Aioi in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, has achieved Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification for its sustainable oyster fishery in the Seto Inland Sea.
An oyster fishery in Okayama Prefecture that grows seed oysters on ropes suspended from rafts off the coast of Okucho was also certified, making it the first MSC-certified rope grown oyster fishery in the world. The fishery caught 1,500
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The Leigh Port Partnership cockle fishery has been assessed under the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) standard for sustainable fishing and found to be compliant with the program.
The Thames Estuary cockle fishery uses hydraulic dredging and is the first cockle fishery on the United Kingdom’s East Coast to be sustainably certified by the MSC. With the certification, beginning in July 2020, the fishery can sell cockles carrying the
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The Western Australia octopus fishery is the first of its kind in the southern hemisphere to be certified to the Marine Stewardship Council standard and the 12th fishery in Western Australia to approved under the certification program, which represents nearly 90 percent of the region’s fisheries by value.
SCS Global Services served as the certifying body, with the Western Australian Fishing Industry Council (WAFIC) acting as the
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The Global Aquaculture Alliance signed a memorandum of understanding with Beijing Shouhang Guoli Trading Co. on 14 November, in which the company committed to sourcing seafood from Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP)-certified facilities for Sofly, a regional supermarket chain.
Sofly, which saw sales of nearly CNY 1.4 billion (USD 199 million, EUR 180 million) in 2017, has approximately 50 stores in Beijing, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Jiangxi, and
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A Pacific free-school yellowfin and skipjack tuna fishery in South Korea has become the first in the country to achieve Marine Stewardship Council certification, according to a 24 October announcement.
The certification applies to free-school yellowfin and skipjack tuna caught by 12 purse-seine freezer vessels operating in the Western Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) and owned by Korean fishing company Dongwon, which is one of the ten largest
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SAI Global has completed its assessment of the Chilean austral hake industrial and longline fisheries, and the fishery can now claim to be a “well-managed and sustainable fishery,” in accordance with the Marine Stewardship Council’s Principles and Criteria for Sustainable Fishing.
The client for the fishery is Federación de Industrias Pesqueras Del Sur Austral (FIPES), which represents four of the five companies
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Triabunna, Tasmania, Australia-based Spring Bay Seafood, which operates deep-water marine farms specializing in mussels, has obtained certification from Friend of the Sea.
The certification covers the company’s farming of blue mussels, which won a gold medal in the 2019 Australian Food Awards. The certification also covers Spring Bay’s end processing, packing, and export operations. Spring Bay exports to markets in Asia and the
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The demand for greater transparency is growing exponentially by the year in the seafood industry. And with the cost of implementing greater transparency in seafood supply chains steadily decreasing, the seafood marketplace can now realize the numerous benefits of implementing efforts at transparency, including economic efficiencies.
Transparency, by definition, usually refers to the disclosure of information to shareholders, customers,
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The Seafood Nutrition Partnership held its third annual State of the Science Symposium on Tuesday, 17 September in Washington D.C., with attendees gathering to brainstorm ways to increase seafood consumption in the United States.
The symposium is held to coincide with National Seafood Month and provide the latest information on seafood nutrition science. The event’s program focused on the updated U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and
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