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The Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) was founded in 2006 as an independent non-governmental organization (NGO) capable of breaking new ground in the world of sustainable seafood and marine and freshwater conservation.
Our vision was to enable leading private-sector stakeholders to become more pro-active in the management of “unsustainable” sources of seafood, to help put them on the path to sustainability.
The private sector often has a key role to play in overcoming political obstacles to policy change in fisheries management bodies. It can also use private procurement requirements to directly raise the standards of fishing practices and improve compliance with existing regulations. In many fisheries worldwide, improvements in the water simply are not possible without private-sector leadership. By forming SFP, we felt we could fill a specific gap between industry and the marine conservation community.