The Sustainable Seafood Movement is an initiative born as a result of overexploited and destroyed marine ecosystems throughout the world. Awareness campaigns are vital and should focus on educating people and encouraging them to purchase sustainable seafood products that consider the conservation of marine species.
Seafood buyers are increasingly searching for ways to choose only products that are sourced from well-managed capture fisheries or aquaculture production facilities and to understand and reduce the environmental risks related to their seafood purchasing choices.
Our sustainable seafood news page will answer all your seafood questions!
We regularly update this page to cover all aspects of seafood news, including up to date information about the seafood trade and all the latest insights from the seafood industry. You can also what’s going on in the seafood market and access current information about the retail sector with seafood supermarket news.
By clicking on the links below you can also access Friend of the Sea Webinars and online courses that cover a wide range of topics such as ‘Hydroponics: leading the way towards a mover sustainable agriculture’ to ‘Social accountability in Fisheries’.
If you are looking for seafood solutions click on the links below to see the latest seafood, aquaculture and fisheries news.
We produce a lot of plastic; that’s a fact. And it’s also a fact that plastic pollution has become one of our most pressing environmental issues. According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, since 2000, plastic waste has more than doubled to 353 million metric tons. Also, less than 10% of the plastic […]
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As of November, WSO offers Friend of the Sea® and Friend of the Earth® certified technical courses to provide in depth updates on sustainability issues in the food and non-food sectors. The second World Sustainability Organization’s online training course is dedicated to the textile industry, and it will take place on Thursday, December 15, from […]
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In October this year, Friend of the Sea® certified a new Norway based omega-3 company. Founded this past year in 2022, Fjorda is a women-led company “passionate about our collective well-being.” Beate Thy, one of the organisation’s founders, shares Fjorda’s goals: “To make people healthy for life, naturally. We do this by bringing together food science expertise, renowned R&D capabilities, […]
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Friend of the Sea’s support for the British charity will make it possible to complete the classification of plastic collected from the Archipelago’s beaches, addressing one of the main threats to the survival of the waved albatross. The list of conservation projects involving Friend of the Sea® is growing. The World Sustainability Organization (WSO) programme is excited […]
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In October, Friend of the Sea® certified a new vitamin company in the Netherlands. EasyVit® is a “top quality, science-oriented, innovative family of nutritional supplements aimed at maintaining and improving your health.” easyVit® uses its patented ConCordix® technology which emulsifies fatty acids, water and oil in their chewable gel vitamins. This structure follows the same way we take […]
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Can you tell if an aquarium cares about the welfare of the fish and aquatic species? Thanks to the Friend of the Sea® logo, the answer is yes. Founded in 2008 by Paolo Bray, Friend of the Sea® has become the leading global standard for products (food and non-food) and services that respect and protect the marine […]
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Friend of the Sea® certified company Coral LLC produces an ingenious product: from an ancient coral reef, they extract calcium to be pulverized into a nutritional supplement. The importance of live coral is well known. Without it, marine life and biodiversity severely suffer. However, one of Friend of the Sea® original certified companies, Coral LLC, has discovered an inventive […]
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As of November, WSO offers Friend of the Sea and Friend of the Earth certified technical courses to provide in depth updates on sustainability issues in the food and non-food sectors. A new season of online training courses provided by the World Sustainability Organization will start on the 10th of November. The lectures cover subjects related […]
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Mr. Paolo Bray interview Ramie Murray, Founder and CEO of Dibba Bay We offer the world a truly gourmet oyster Dibba Bay Oysters are amongst the finest restaurant-grade oysters in the world. Identifiable by their white and gold-flecked shell and meaty texture, Dibba Bay oysters are the first and only gourmet oysters from the Middle […]
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Status: plannedExpected audit date: 30/11/2022Type of Audit: SurveillanceCertification Body: London Associati Ltd.Fishing area: FAO 27Fishing method: Midwater otter trawls – Purse seineScope: FOS Wild v.4, FOS CoC FOS-FF,FM,FO and O3 v.5Species: Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus), Atlantic herring Clupea harengus
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