Mejillones Aucar Limitada SA (Chile): Mussel

08/01/2022

Status: planned Expected audit date: 08/02/2022 Type of Audit: Certification Certification Body: London Associati Ltd. Fishing area: – Fishing method: – Scope: FOS CoC – FF, FM, FO and O3 v.5 Species: Mussel (Mytilus chilensis)

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Pesquera Apiao S.A. (Chile): Mussel

08/01/2022

Status: planned Expected audit date: 08/02/2022 Type of Audit: Re–Certification Certification Body: London Associati Ltd. Fishing area: Fishing method: Scope: Aqua Shellfish – FOS CoC – FF, FM, FO and O3, v.5 Species: Mussel (Mytilus chilensis)

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St. Andrews S.A. (Chile): Mussel

08/01/2022

Status: planned Expected audit date: 08/02/2022 Type of Audit: Certification Certification Body: London Associati Ltd. Fishing area: – Fishing method: – Scope: FOS CoC – FF, FM, FO, and O3 v.5 Species: Mussel (Mytilus chilensis)

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Wishes from WSO team to 2022

24/12/2021

The WSO team got together to send a special message for next year! We at the WSO also want you to have a special 2022, full of health in a more sustainable world, made by people for people. Be a Friend of the Sea.Be a Friend of the Earth. WORLD SUSTAINABILITY ORGANIZATION_________________________________________FOLLOW US: SITE: https://friendofthesea.org/FACEBOOK: […]

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Wishes from WSO team to 2022

DAMSA SA Laayoune (Maroc): European sardine, chub mackerel, Atlantic mackerel, Atlantic chub mackerel

21/12/2021

Status: plannedExpected audit date: 31/01/2022Type of Audit: Re-CertificationCertification Body: London Associati Ltd.Fishing area: ATLANTIC, EASTERN CENTRAL (Major Fishing Area 34).Fishing method: Purse seine and TrawlingScope: Wild fish v.3.1 – FOS CoC – FO FF v.5Species: European sardine (Sardine pilchardus), chub mackerel (Scomber japonicus)Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus), Atlantic chub mackerel (Scomber colias)

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Del Pacifico Seafoods earns Friend of the Sea Certification for their sustainable wild caught blue mexican shrimp.

14/12/2021

Del Pacifico Seafoods, the only fair trade certified wild caught Mexican shrimp product available on the market, was recently awarded the Friend of the Sea Certification in recognition of the company’s sustainable fishing method that respects and protects the marine environment. Del Pacifico’s wild-caught shrimp are fished from small boats known as Pangas powered only by the […]

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Whale-Safe certification to facilitate whale-ship collisions issue

27/11/2021

While 7 out of 13 great whale species are on the trajectory to extinction given pervasive overfishing and being caught as ‘by-catch’, colliding with ships has been identified as the main threat to whales in the Atlantic and Mediterranean Oceans. Though ship collisions have been identified by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) as a significant […]

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Whale-Safe certification to facilitate whale-ship collisions issue

Researchers Need Help Photographing Butterflies

26/11/2021

Calling all citizen scientists for a global butterfly census. See that butterfly flitting in your garden? Snap a photo and join a new citizen scientist project.   The Global Butterfly Census is asking for help to track butterflies in their natural habitat around the world.    The project was launched by Friend of the Earth, a program from the […]

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Researchers Need Help Photographing Butterflies