The Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) released its annual sustainability overview of reduction fisheries for 2016, and for the second year in a row, Aker BioMarine was the only fishery to receive an A rating.
Aker’s fishery was compared to twenty of the most significant fisheries used for the production of fishmeal and fish oil. Similar to last year’s report, only 3.80% of the total catch volume of the reduction fisheries comes from stocks in very good condition and that corresponds to Aker’s BioMarine’s fishery alone.
‘There are no shortcuts when it comes to sustainable business practices at Aker BioMarine.We are no longer just fishing for krill in the Antarctic in a sustainable way. We have a meaning to our everyday work, which is to ensure healthy oceans and healthy lives. We are ecstatic to receive another ‘A’ rating from the SFP to put further focus on doing business the right way,’ said Aker BioMarine director of sustainability Cilia Holmes Indahl.
‘We hope to be an inspiration to other reduction fisheries around the world and are confident that positive change will come to the industry. Together we can take the right steps to ensure that fisheries take responsibility for the ecosystems in which they fish.’
The Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) is a young, business-focused NGO aiming to reshape the world of corporate responsibility by allowing companies to directly engage with suppliers of natural resources. As part of the SFP’s mission to assess and improve the needs of sustainability, it has analused data from 20 stocks from 13 species and two main groups (fish and crustaceans), rated according to the sustainability assessment presented on FishSource (www.fishsource.com).The fisheries were ranked into four sustainability categories: A-very well managed fisheries, B1-reasonably well managed fisheries, B2-reasonably managed fisheries, and C-poorly managed fisheries.
This report shows that less than 60% of the volume of fish comes from reasonably well managed fisheries. The full report titled Reduction Fisheries: SFP Fisheries Sustainability Overview 2016, can be found here.
