New research concludes that a total ban on the practice of transshipment on the high seas is necessary to help stop illegal fishing and reduce the human trafficking and labor rights abuses that often accompany unlawful fishing activities.
In honor of Earth Day, I thought it would be a good opportunity to gather together some of our most salient pieces on the environment and the food system. The pieces are grouped into three main sections: agriculture, food waste, and oceans. – MB
On Jan. 1 the United States started enforcing a new import rule, which requires fisheries exporting seafood to the United States to protect marine mammals at standards comparable to those required for U.S. fisheries. This rule aims to leverage American market power to reduce marine mammal bycatch worldwide. It also aims to level the playing field for U.S. fishermen, who currently face monitoring costs and fishing restrictions to reduce marine mammal bycatch – unlike some of their foreign competitors.
GUEST AUTHOR: Phoebe Higgins | Director, California Fisheries Fund The piece originally appeared on the The Environmental Defense Fund’s blog EDFish. It appears here by […]
A combination of new tracing technologies and business models are making it easier to figure out how and where a fish was caught. Guest Author: […]
GUEST AUTHOR: Mary Hoff This piece originally appeared in Ensia. It is republished under a Creative Commons license. Oceans cover more than two thirds of […]
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