On June 8th, 2020 the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released its biennial SOFIA report, the largest and most reliable summary of global seafood data. It includes updates through 2018 and new calculations not reported before, like the fact that 78.7% of seafood comes from biologically sustainable fish populations.
Read MoreThe global footprint of fishing is an ongoing topic of discussion and discrepancies in the scale of data are producing wildly different answers.
Read MoreEverything we eat has environmental costs. We trade human health and nutrition for some necessary amount of environmental disturbance, though we strive to reduce our dietary impact. Seafood has a much lower impact on the environment - space and freshwater - than land-based food.
Read MoreThis new initiative was started by Dr. Ray Hilborn to better communicate the science, policy, and social aspects of sustainable seafood. The website is built around Sustainable Seafood 101, a series of posts meant to explain every aspect of fisheries and seafood. http://sustainablefisheries-uw.org/welcome/.
Read MoreCommercial fishing families up and down the BC coast are readying their boats and fishing gear.
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