Category Archives: Sustainable Seafood

Supporting Fisheries and Working Waterfronts with Infrastructure Improvements

Posted by Jun 3, 2021 Featured, Policy, Sustainable Seafood, Working Waterfronts Leave a Comment
Supporting Fisheries and Working Waterfronts with Infrastructure Improvements

As our country slowly recovers from the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent economic shutdown, the Biden administration has chosen to focus its attention on our nation’s infrastructure, with good reason. Historically, large-scale infrastructure projects with their influx of manufacturing and construction jobs have successfully helped the U.S. rebound after economic recessions. Although the word “infrastructure” […]

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Solid Win for Striped Bass at the ASMFC

Posted by May 21, 2021 ASMFC, Commercial Fishing, Featured, Recreational Fishing, Striped Bass, Sustainable Seafood Leave a Comment
Solid Win for Striped Bass at the ASMFC

Top photo via Dave Monti On Wednesday, May 5, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Atlantic Striped Bass Management Board (Management Board) met to discuss the comments that it received on the issues presented in the Public Information Document For Amendment 7 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Striped Bass (PID). The Management […]

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Get Informed about Seaspiracy

Posted by May 12, 2021 Commercial Fishing, Featured, Sustainable Seafood, Working Waterfronts Leave a Comment
Get Informed about Seaspiracy

For better or worse, the Netflix documentary Seaspiracy has introduced a wider audience to many of the challenges facing our global oceans. While the film presents a broad overview of the threats, it paints many of these issues with too broad of a brushstroke to effectively convey the complexity of what’s happening in our oceans. […]

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Network Responds to Climate Change Executive Order

Posted by Apr 29, 2021 Climate Change, Featured, Sustainable Seafood, Working Waterfronts Leave a Comment
Network Responds to Climate Change Executive Order

During the first weeks of the new administration, President Biden issued Executive Order 14008 on tackling the climate crisis at home and abroad. This order initiated efforts within 60 days to collect input from fishermen, regional ocean councils, fishery management councils, scientists, and other stakeholders on how to make fisheries and protected resources more resilient […]

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Why Small-Scale Fisheries Matter

Posted by Apr 20, 2021 Bristol Bay/Pebble Mine, Commercial Fishing, Featured, Salmon, Sustainable Seafood, Working Waterfronts Leave a Comment
Why Small-Scale Fisheries Matter

Photo: Author Linda Behnken on the water off the coast of Alaska Small-scale fisheries support a way of life that has become increasingly rare in our industrialized world—a way of life that is inexorably tied to the natural world, where individuals face forces far greater than human power and thrive only through humility and a […]

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The Gulf Gives Back! Commercial Fishermen Partner with Local Communities to Feed Families in Need

Posted by Apr 13, 2021 Commercial Fishing, COVID-19, Grouper, Red Snapper, Sustainable Seafood, Working Waterfronts Leave a Comment
The Gulf Gives Back! Commercial Fishermen Partner with Local Communities to Feed Families in Need

The Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Shareholders’ Alliance has partnered with three local food banks, four fish houses and seafood processors, a charitable impact investor, and more than 100 commercial fishermen and seafood suppliers throughout the Gulf of Mexico to deliver 28,000 meals of sustainably-harvested Gulf snapper and grouper to families and communities in need. […]

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Magnuson-Stevens Act Reauthorization: Where We Stand in the 117th Congress

Posted by Apr 9, 2021 Commercial Fishing, Featured, Magnuson-Stevens, Recreational Fishing, Sustainable Seafood, View From The Hill 1 Comment
Magnuson-Stevens Act Reauthorization: Where We Stand in the 117th Congress

Every ten years, as the story goes, Congress has worked together in a bipartisan fashion to reauthorize the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA). And each time Congress has risen to the occasion to address the new challenges our oceans and fisheries face by amending and strengthening the MSA to conserve and sustain U.S. […]

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