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A market research report on the seafood sector in Japan.

ICES 2006, Fishing Technology in the 21st Century, was a five-day symposium that held in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., focusing on the theme of integrating commercial fishing and ecosystem conservation.

Monthly aquaculture e-alert highlighting news items, legislation and reports

Since approximately 2006, various concerns regarding abuses of workers engaged in the seafood industry have steadily attracted more attention, from the media and civil society advocacy groups. The main concern has been reports of coercive treatment of certain categories of both sea and land-based workers, through abusive labour and recruitment practices variously referred to as slavery or slavery-like practices, forced and bonded labour, human trafficking, as well as serious forms of child labour. This has led to more monitoring, and a wide range of governmental, inter-governmental and NGO initiatives to address the concerns. There have been a number of studies into the scale of the issue but further study is required in order to determine the international scale of human rights and labour abuses in the seafood industry. This briefing note: details some of the key reviews that have looked at the scale of labour issues in the fishing and seafood sectors; and lists the organisations addressing labour rights in the fishing sector. This document was originally produced in March 2015 and was updated in April 2016.

Final minutes of the Common Language Group meeting held at Billingsgate on Thusday 27 February 2014.

Seafish commissioned a study to assess the ethical issues impacting on seafood species landed into, and imported to the UK. This strategic report is one of the key outputs. This includes a discussion of the issues and challenges in applying ethical concepts, particularly those set out in international standards on human and labour rights, to the seafood industry; an overview of the main issues for risk assessment, by country and region, by forms of employment, and to some extent by species; and the remedies and responses, drawing on the recent experience from Thailand.

A market research report on the seafood sector in Vietnam.

Seafish commissioned a study to assess the ethical issues impacting on seafood species landed into, and imported to the UK. This literature review is one of the key outputs. This addresses; the context and challenges; the scope of analysis, in applying ethical concepts and standards to the seafood industry; a review of relevant published reports; a review of media reports, websites and advocacy campaigns; an initial assessment of government, industry and multi-stakeholder initiatives; and an overall assessment and gap analysis.

The 2016 Seafood Processing Industry Report presents accurate up-to-date economic data and commentary to serve, where appropriate, as an evidence base for business decisions, policy discussions, and further research. This report provides details on the structure and size of the industry such as regional distribution, size of firms, type of broad fish species processed, type of processing activity undertaken and financial performance.

FLEG Minutes. Items discussed: Official Controls Review – hygiene charges; Food labelling – working groups and guidance; Fisheries control regulation – traceability enforcement; Imports and exports - IUU; Hygiene regulations, parasites guidance, Codex E. coli criteria, norovirus, histamine sampling, brown meat of crab; New food body for Scotland; BSI; export health certificates for China; date of freezing; animal health regulation

A market research report on the seafood industry in Russia.

The potential impact of wild Pacific oysters on local biodiversity is being raised as an issue that has to be considered in environmental assessments of both new farms and changes to practices by existing farms where they occur in wildlife protected areas. A FIFG-funded project has been carried out by Seafish which focuses on Pacific oyster cultivation in and around European Marine Sites. Working closely with industry and statutory nature conservation agencies, relevant background information was collated (Development of a Pacific oyster aquaculture protocol for the UK - Technical Reportand a protocol proposed (Development of a Pacific oyster aquaculture protocol for the UK - Protocol template. Where there could be an impact on protected wildlife and/or marine habitats, husbandry and management techniques have been proposed to mitigate or eliminate any potential impacts. The project complements the ‘Memorandum of Understanding for Appropriate Assessments in European Marine Sites’ that was agreed between the SAGB and Natural England.