StarKist® Sourcing 100% of its Tuna and Salmon from Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) or Fishery Improvement Project (FIP) Fisheries
America s Favorite Tuna Company(1) Commits to Sourcing 100% of its Tuna and Salmon from Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Assessed Fisheries by 2025
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PITTSBURGH, April 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ StarKist Co. announced today that it has achieved a goal to source 100% of its tuna and salmon from sustainable sources. All tuna and salmon procured by StarKist
® are purchased from third-party suppliers that meet the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) standard for sustainable fishing or are working toward certification, including those participating in a comprehensive, time bound Fishery Improvement Project (FIP).
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PNG FIA, UNIDO partnering with GSSI in 2021
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The Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative (GSSI) has seen its ranks grow in 2021, with the Papua New Guinea Fishing Industry Association (PNG FIA) recently coming aboard as a funding partner and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) joining as an affiliated partner.
PNG FIA, which provides “a united voice for the fishing and associated industries in Papua New Guinea,” has been forging stakeholder partnerships on the basis of sustainability for years, according to FIA Director of Sustainability Marcelo Hidalgo. Our partnership and stakeholder engagement started in August 2018, when FIA signed and cooperation agreement (MoU) with the National Fishery Authority (NFA) of PNG to support the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) fishery certification of the PNG waters,” Hidalgo said in a statement shared with SeafoodSource.
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Cermaq proudly supports todayâs joint statement from five of the most influential industry and multi-stakeholder platforms in the seafood sector calling for action to combat the scourge of illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
In their âStatement on Traceability and Port State Measures,â the groups call for a combination of private sector and government actions to help transform the transparency and accountability of seafood supply chains and block landings of IUU catch.
The five groups releasing the statement are Seafood Business for Ocean Stewardship (SeaBOS), the Global Tuna Alliance (GTA), the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF), the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability (GDST), and the Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative (GSSI) Taken together, these platforms include over 150 companies from across the seafood value chain, making this one of the largest seafood industry calls for action on record.