overview
The Sustainable Fisheries Partnership helps seafood producers and buyers to promote the long-term security of their own supply by improving fisheries conservation. We help companies and other stakeholders advocate for appropriate regulation of fisheries and fish farms, choose their sources wisely, and meet their own sustainability commitments.
We convene buyers, producers and other stakeholders to form Fishery Improvement Partnerships for troubled fisheries. We evaluate the relevant fish stocks and management systems, based on publicly available data and expertise of the partners themselves. We identify elements of management that can be strengthened. Then we work together with the partners to bring these fisheries into compliance with standards of sustainability and transparency.
We organize our findings to help the partners make responsible seafood-sourcing decisions and advocate effective fishery regulations. We support these private-sector initiatives by providing strategic counsel and partnership-building among stakeholders.
Clients for this work include major retailers, restaurant chains, seafood brand owners, and other wholesale seafood buyers, producers, and nonprofit organizations involved in building consumer awareness and demand for sustainable seafood.
In its research and educational work, SFP is currently addressing both harvest management and impacts of climate change and ocean acidification.