The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) is a global partnership among science, the tuna industry and WWF, the global conservation organization. Its mission is to undertake science-based initiatives for the long-term conservation and sustainable use of tuna stocks, reducing by-catch and promoting ecosystem health.
Close cooperation with the world’s major tuna regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) and their scientific committees is the first governance principle of the ISSF. The second governance principle is to follow sound scientific recommendations, which will be developed and recommended to the ISSF board by an advisory science committee of internationally recognized authorities on marine biology and ecosystems, ocean fisheries and especially tuna sustainability.
The founders of ISSF are Bolton Alimentari; Bumble Bee Foods, LLC / Clover Leaf Seafoods; MW Brands; Princes Ltd.; Sea Value Co., Ltd.; StarKist Co.; Thai Union Manufacturing Co. Ltd / Chicken of the Sea Intl.; TriMarine International; and WWF, the global conservation organization.
PNA wide-ranging operatiron to assist ships that collided near Argentine waters Argentina
The Argentine Naval Prefecture is deploying a wide-ranging operation to assist the Chinese flagged Zhongyuanyu 11 vessel and the Spanish fishing vessel Pesca Vaqueiro, which for reasons under investigation, collided at 9 nautical miles outside the Argentine EEZ.
EU will totally ban 'electric fishing' from 2021 European Union
The European Parliament and the UE member states reached an agreement to fully ban electric fishing in all waters, including those outside the EU, by 30 June 2021.
OCEANA denounces illegal use of anchovy to produce fishmeal Peru
The marine conservation organization OCEANA denounces the illegal diversion of some 150,000 tonnes of anchovy destined for human consumption per year to illegally process fishmeal, one of Peru's main export products.
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