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New Aquaculture Licensing in British Columbia to Improve Business Planning and Encourage Investments in Sustainable Practices
The Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, announced today that the Department will be implementing multi-year licensing for aquaculture operators in British Columbia. The changes will provide the industry with more operational certainty and longer term planning capacity while allowing them to invest in sustainable practices. Aquaculture owners and operators will still have to ...
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More than 2,000 Scientists Worldwide Urge Protection of Central Arctic Ocean Fisheries
More than 2,000 scientists from 67 countries urged Arctic leaders, in an open letter released today by the Pew Environment Group, to develop an international fisheries accord that would protect the unregulated waters of the Central Arctic Ocean. New maps show that the loss of permanent sea ice has opened up as much as 40 percent of this pristine region during recent summers, making industrial ...
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Ocean acidification threatens fisheries, says UNEP
The oceans are acidifying at probably the fastest rate for 65 million years — with unknown implications for the three billion people who depend on fish for protein, a report released at the 2010 UN Climate Change Conference (COP 16), in Mexico has said. Rising CO2 emissions, a quarter of which eventually dissolve in the oceans to produce carbonic acid, have caused a 30 per cent drop in ...
By SciDev.Net
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Salmon population crash shuts down west coast fishery
The Pacific Fishery Management Council today closed the commercial and sport chinook fisheries off the coast of California and most of Oregon and will allow only a 9,000 fishery for hatchery coho only off of Central Oregon. The council adopted the most restrictive salmon fishing quotes in the history of the West Coast in response to the unprecedented collapse of the Sacramento River fall ...
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South Korea and FAO team up to promote sustainable fisheries
The government of South Korea and FAO have agreed to work closely together to promote responsible fishing and aquaculture in the developing world. South Korea's Vice-Minister of Oceans and Fisheries, Jae Hak Son, and FAO Assistant Director-General Maria Helena Semedo signed a Memorandum of Understanding today agreeing to work together to build the capacity of developing countries to address key ...
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Pacific hake fishery enters assessment for re-certification
The Pacific hake offshore fishery, which operates off the west coast of the United States and Canada, has entered assessment for re-certification. The mid-water trawl fishery became MSC certified as a sustainable and well-managed fishery in the fall of 2009. Pacific hake (Merluccius productus) is also known commercially as Pacific whiting. The management of the Pacific hake fishery is shared ...
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Commission gathers views on ways to follow-up Rio+20
The United Nations Rio+20 world summit, held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012, aimed to secure renewed political commitment to sustainable development. To follow up on the conference, the European Commission wishes to develop specific actions and concrete measures to make sustainable development a reality, within the EU and globally. A public consultation is being held to gather views and ideas. ...
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USAID Awards Tetra Tech $20 Million Oceans and Fisheries Partnership Contract
Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK) announced today that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded the Company a $20 million contract to improve fisheries management and enhance the health and resilience of Southeast Asia’s marine ecosystems. The region depends heavily on marine and coastal fisheries for food and economic growth, and fish stocks are in a state of decline. To ...
By Tetra Tech
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Canadian Seafood Farmers Welcome The Hon. Bernadette Jordan as Minister of Fisheries and Oceans
Pursuing collaboration on fighting climate change, working in partnership with Indigenous peoples, and growing a sustainable food future. OTTAWA, ON - The Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance (CAIA) would like to welcome the Honourable Bernadette Jordan as the new federal Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and Canadian Coast Guard and expressed its enthusiasm to work together to realizing ...
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Fisheries leaders set their sights on a more sustainable future for African oceans
Fisheries leaders from across government, NGOs and industry have gathered in Cape Town, South Africa to discuss solutions to over fishing. The meeting marks the first time that the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) international Stakeholder Council has met in Africa and coincides with World Food Day 2014. In recognition of the importance of seafood to developing world economies, ...
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Extending responsible fisheries management to the ocean deeps
On the first-ever UN World Oceans Day FAO has published a set of technical guidelines aimed at helping the fisheries sector reduce its impacts on fragile deep-sea fish species and ecosystems. The guidelines provide a framework that countries can use, individually and in the context of regional fisheries management organizations, to manage deep sea fisheries (DSF) in high-seas areas outside of ...
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Gulf of Mexico Large Marine Ecosystem Program Receives First Place Gulf Guardian Award in the Binational Category
The Gulf of Mexico Program recently announced the Gulf of Mexico Large Marine Ecosystem Program will receive a First Place 2013 Gulf Guardian Award in the Binational Category. The awards ceremony will be held on June 26, 2013, at the Tampa Bay Grand Hyatt beginning at 6PM. The efforts of Mexico through SEAMARNAT (Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico) and the National Oceanic ...
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Be a part of the Global Food Solution
Demand for fish protein is on the increase due to population growth and is putting more pressure on both marine and fresh water stocks. More than 33% of ocean fishing is fully exploited due to overfishing (the practice of commercial and non-commercial fishing which depletes a fishery by catching so many adult fish that not enough remain to breed and replenish the population). Aquaculture, the ...
By BioFishency
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Prince Edward Island lobster fishery enters MSC full assessment
The Prince Edward Island (PEI) lobster fishery, located in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada, has entered into independent, third-party assessment against the global, science-based Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification program. The fishery client includes the PEI Fishermen’s Association, the PEI Seafood Producers Association, the Abegweit First Nation and the Lennox Island First ...
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First herring fishery in Canada achieves MSC certification
The Newfoundland and Labrador NAFO Division 4R Atlantic herring purse seine fishery has achieved MSC certification, becoming the first herring fishery in Canada to attain certification as sustainable and well-managed against the science-based MSC standard. Following an independent assessment conducted by Intertek Fisheries Certification (IFC), Atlantic herring products sourced from the client ...
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South Korea bans fish from NE Japan on radiation fears
South Korea announced Friday that it was banning all fish imports from along Japan's northeastern coast because of what officials called growing public worry over radioactive water leaking into the Pacific Ocean near the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. Fisheries in Fukushima prefecture (state) are closed, and fish caught in nearby prefectures are sold on the market only after ...
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Canadian Atlantic Halibut Fishery Earns Marine Stewardship Council Certification from SCS
The Canadian Atlantic halibut fishery managed by Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has been awarded Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification for sustainable fisheries. The certification involved a team of scientists from SCS Global Services (SCS), which conducted an independent assessment based on the three principles of the MSC standard: the sustainability of the fish ...
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Sodexo commits to 100% contracted sustainable seafood by 2015
Sodexo, Inc., the world leader in Quality of Daily Life Solutions, announced today a comprehensive, industry leading Sustainable Seafood Initiative, including a commitment to have 100 percent of its contracted fresh and frozen seafood certified as sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) or Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) by 2015. Sodexo's Sustainable Seafood Initiative is part of ...
By 3BL Media
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Launch of Canadian Seafood Stabilization Fund Brings Support for Industry
OTTAWA, ON – The Fisheries Council of Canada (FCC) and the Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance (CAIA) would like to thank Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Honourable Bernadette Jordan, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard for their work in launching the $62.5 million Canadian Seafood Stabilization Fund (CSSF), as was announced today. Access to this ...
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Nova Scotia and New Brunswick inshore lobster fishery achieves MSC certification
The Bay of Fundy, Scotian Shelf and Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence lobster (Homarus americanus) trap fishery (Nova Scotia and New Brunswick) has achieved certification to the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) standard. Following an independent assessment conducted by SAI Global, lobsters sourced from this fishery are now eligible to bear the blue MSC ecolabel which demonstrates they come from a ...
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