Publix Provides Funding to Sustainable Fisheries Partnership to Help Improve Commercial Fishing Practices

June 11, 2024 Publix

Publix is proud to celebrate World Oceans Day while continuing to support sustainable seafood practices and helping to protect ocean wildlife through its donations to Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) over the last 14 years. 

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership and Hilborn Lab Launch Updated Fishery Improvement Project Database

While mainly intended for use by fisheries management researchers, the database is also an important tool for industry and non-profit stakeholders to understand how internal and external factors affect FIP performance and success.

South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization Endorses Measures to Address Labor and Human Rights Abuses and Improve Monitoring, Control and Surveillance in Jumbo Flying Squid Fishery

The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization (SPRFMO) endorsed a historic decision on labor standards and human rights abuses at its annual meeting last week in Manta, Ecuador. The delegations also approved improved monitoring, control, and surveillance measures, but fell short of approving measures to include Spanish as an official language or address ecosystem impacts of large fleets.

Major Seafood Buyers Support US Proposals to Address IUU Fishing and Human Rights Violations in the South Pacific

More than 30 major seafood companies, industry associations and pre-competitive coalitions expressed their support for addressing illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and human rights violations to the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization (SPRFMO), which begins its annual meeting in Ecuador. 

Seafood Companies, Governments, and NGOs Support “Seabird-Safe Fishing Toolkit

Action and momentum is building across the Asia-Pacific tuna industry to reduce capture of threatened albatrosses and other seabirds in longline fisheries.