Assessment of On-Pack, Wild-Capture Seafood Sustainability Certification Programmes and Seafood Ecolabels
Accenture’s non-profit practice, Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP) compared and ranked seven fishery certification schemes that use ecolabels on seafood products against a set of WWF criteria that focus on the schemes’ effectiveness in addressing the health of fisheries and oceans.
WWF Response to the 2009 Green Paper : Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy
In the context of the new Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) reform which will be adopted in 2012, the European Commission launched in April 2009 a public consultation presenting the main failures of current fisheries management and opening the debate on how to improve the CFP in order to ensure sustainable fisheries.
European Fisheries : How to Improve the Regional Advisory Councils
In the context of the new Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) reform which will be adopted in 2012, the European Commission launched in April 2009 a public consultation presenting the main failures of current fisheries management and opening the debate on how to improve the CFP in order to ensure sustainable fisheries.
Coral Triangle Tuna Brochure
Tuna feeds millions of people, sustains economies, and is an essetnial ecological link in the marine food web. But in the Coral Triangle, these benefits are on the brink of being list. So what do we do?
A Vision for European Fisheries: 2012 Reform of the EU Common Fisheries Policy
This paper examines the reasons for the failure of the 2002 revised Common Fisheries Policy and suggests changes that should be made in the upcoming round of revisions.
Banking on Cod
Demand for wild (non-farmed) seafood is increasingly reliant upon dwindling fish stocks. Much of the fishing industry is now struggling to make ends meet, yet despite this, studies show that changes in management could increase fisheries' profitability whilst also protecting fish stocks. Find out how we can once again Bank on Cod, only this time sustainably!
Bycatch Factsheet
Dolphins, marine turtles, seals, seabirds, sharks, juvenile fish, fish with little commercial value, corals … billions of unwanted animals are caught every year by fishing boats then discarded dead or dying back into the ocean.
Defining and estimating global marine fisheries bycatch
Unselective fishing catches non-target organisms as ‘bycatch’—an issue of critical ocean conservation and resource management concern. However, the situation is confused because perceptions of target and non target catch vary widely, impeding efforts to estimate bycatch globally.
Safe Conduct? Twelve years fishing under the UN Code
The FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fishing (CCRF, ‘the Code’) was produced in 1995. During the period of its ten year anniversary, WWF and the University of British Columbia (UBC) Fisheries Centre initiated this project to assess its implementation. Applying a consistent assessment protocol to data for 2003-2005, UBC analysed 53 countries, representing over 95% of the world’s wild fisheries catch. This work offers a snapshot of where improvements might be necessary and against which new initiatives can be judged.
