overview

The Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) provides strategic and technical guidance to seafood suppliers and producers, helps convene them together with other like-minded companies in Fishery Improvement Partnerships, and builds consensus around specific improvements in policies, marine conservation measures, and fishing and fish-farming practices.

We build the private sector’s capacity to make a difference in two ways:

  1. by developing business practices and alliances that support sustainable sourcing of seafood;
  2. by advocating stronger government fisheries and marine conservation policies.

Our strength in the disciplines of economics, marine science, communications, and well-balanced advocacy help buyers and suppliers exert their influence where it matters most: in their supply chains, and among the key decision makers who govern fisheries.

The Partnership improves access to information that buyers rely on to guide responsible seafood sourcing. We recommend specific improvements in management. And we provide critical assistance to seafood companies as they press governments for fisheries improvements—such as effective harvest regulations, monitoring and enforcement, and measures to cut off trade in illegally caught seafood.

SFP is a nonprofit project that is fiscally sponsored and legally organized under the Trust for Conservation Innovation, an organization exempt from US federal taxation under Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3).