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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.

Posted on 18 January 2010 | 0 comments | Read more

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.

Posted on 24 November 2009 | 1 comments | Read more

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.

Posted on 24 November 2009 | 0 comments | Read more

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?

Posted on 19 November 2009 | 0 comments | Read more

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.

Posted on 25 September 2009 | 0 comments | Read more

Cover of report: Banking on Cod

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!

Posted on 16 June 2009 | Read more

Bycatch of a leatherback turtle in a French Tuna purse-seine fishery in the Atlantic ocean.

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.

Posted on 15 June 2009 | 0 comments | Read more

Bycatch

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.

Posted on 15 April 2009 | 0 comments | Read more

Safe Conduct? Twelve years fishing under the UN code.

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.

Posted on 05 February 2009 | 4 comments | Read more

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