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.

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

M.GI.B. srl (Italy): Japanese carpet shell

25/11/2021

Status: plannedExpected audit date: 25/12/2021Type of Audit: initialCertification Body: London Associati Ltd.Scope: FOS CoC – FO FF, FM, FO and O3 v.5Species: Japanese carpet shell (Ruditapes philippinarum)

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Webinar on “Sustainable fruit production and sustainability certifications. Case Study: Pomegranate by Masseria Fruttirossi certified Friend of the Earth.” 24th of November 2021 at 3:00 pm in Milan, CET.

22/11/2021

Dear Madam/Sir,   Friend of the Earth would like to invite you to the upcoming free of charge webinar on “Sustainable fruit production and sustainability certifications. Case Study: Pomegranate by Masseria Fruttirossi certified Friend of the Earth.”   This webinar can be of interest to:   –  Food processing companies   –  Agriculture companies   –  Pomegranate industry   –  Retailers and Catering […]

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Sustainable fruit production

INTERVIEW: Mareaperto. Attivamente responsabili verso l’ambiente – italian video

18/11/2021

  Il signor Paolo Bray intervista la signora Costanza Levera, Marketing e Communication at Mareaperto. Guarda le pagine di Mareaperto https://www.mareaperto.it/   _________________________________________FOLLOW US: SITE: https://friendofthesea.org/FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/friendofthes…TWITTER: https://twitter.com/friendoftheseaLINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/frie…INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/friendofthe… CONTACT US: info@friendofthesea.org

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Mareaperto. Attivamente

WSO Urges Ghana Govt To Develop Policies To Prevent Exploitation Of Natural Resources

18/11/2021

ounder and Director of the World Sustainability Organization, Paolo Bray has called on the Government of Ghana to develop policies targeted at preventing the exploitation of the country’s natural resources. Speaking in an interview with GHOne TV’s Natalie Fort, he noted although Ghana has an impressive story of economic growth, the impact of economic development on the country’s […]

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WSO Urges Ghana Govt To Develop

SEALOGY® IL SALONE EUROPEO DELLA BLUE ECONOMY

16/11/2021

UN GRANDE APPUNTAMENTO FIERISTICO SULL’UNIVERSO MARE E LE SUE RISORSE.Tra i principali protagonisti a SEALOGY®, l’intera filiera ittica e le sue eccellenze, rappresentate in particolare dalle produzioni provenienti dal Medio e Alto Adriatico.SEALOGY® promuove e valorizza l’ambiente marino, divulga tendenze, innovazioni e buone pratiche, nel pieno rispetto della tutela e salvaguardia dell’ecosistema marino e dello […]

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SEALOGY

Leal Santos (Brazil): yellowfin tuna, skipjack tuna, albacore tuna

10/11/2021

Status: plannedExpected audit date: 17/12/2021Type of audit: surveillanceCertification body: RINA Fishing area: FAO 41 Fishing method: pole and lineScope: FOS Wild 3.1, FOS CoC, FF, FM, FO and O3  v.5Species: yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares), skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis), albacore tuna (Thunnus alalunga)

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