Conservation Alliance for Seafood Solutions aims for bigger impact
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The Conservation Alliance for Seafood Solutions has announced a series of changes aimed at helping the seafood industry achieve greater adoption of sustainable practices and innovation. The changes are intended to support the organization’s 10-year goal of achieving 75 percent of global seafood production rated as environmentally sustainable or making verifiable improvement, and making sure safeguards are in place to ensure social responsibility.
The goal is part of the organization’s mission to drive alignment between NGOs, businesses, scientists, seafood experts, and governments around the world.
“It is a very ambitious goal. It sets a waypoint for our community to work toward and it helps us to focus on the most impactful work,” CASS Executive Director Mariah Boyle said. “While a goal of this magnitude is not achievable by any one organization, we believe the collective impact of the
Regulatory approaches differ for burgeoning offshore aquaculture sector
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As offshore aquaculture becomes a more viable enterprise globally, a variety of regulatory approaches have emerged that reflect conflicting perspectives of the sector as either an economic opportunity or an environmental threat.
In both countries, government officials have expressed concern about the environmental impact of offshore aquaculture.
“We’re very concerned as a government about protecting wild salmon and the migratory routes that they use and we’re very interested in moving to closed containment where feasible,” Doug Donaldson, then-minister of forest, land and natural resource operations, and rural development in British Columbia, Canada, said in 2018, as the government first brought up the idea of moving its net-pen fish farms onshore.