The University of Michigan (U-M) today became the first Big Ten university to achieve Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Chain of Custody certification as part of its overall commitment to offer sustainable food on campus. U-M’s Michigan Dining has earned certification to support sustainably managed fisheries by sourcing MSC certified seafood that can be traced back to a fishery that has been certified against the rigorous, science-based MSC standard.
Polar Fishing Gear of Iceland and SINERGIA SRL of Mar del Plata, Argentina will now offer the complete line of Notus Electronics Ltd.'s (Notus) net monitoring products through its extensive global dealer network. Both partnerships for Notus are considered significant moves.
Fish - Fish secretariat sent the last newsletter before the new year - under the heading , what a year it has been.
The year 2013 has been quite an eventful year for the fisheries sector and the ocean cluster in Iceland and a number of trends have started to emerge. For the 2014 predicted the following 10 trends in the Iceland ocean cluster:
The U.S. Atlantic sea scallop (Placopecten magellanicus) fishery has been certified to the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) standard for sustainable, well-managed fisheries following an independent assessment conducted by Intertek Moody Marine.
In a letter from the Faroese Fisheries Minister Jacob Vestergaard, he wrote the following in response to Damanaki's visit to the Faroe Islands, where the European fisheries commissioner, among other things had suggested similar quotas for mackerel for both Iceland and the Faroe Islands.
Council Outcomes on Quota Allocations for 2014 Reflect Stock Recovery But More Needs to Be Done At Regional Level to Deal with Mixed Fisheries says NFFO
The Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting of December 2013 took place in Brussels on 16-17 December 2013.
The MSC has launched its new film Our Fisheries, Our Future: Sustainable Fishing in the Developing World. This is the latest initiative to support the positive transformation of seafood resources management in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia.
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