UK: ISSF annual report highlights progress toward more sustainable tuna fisheries

ISSF annual report highlights progress toward more sustainable tuna fisheries. Complementary Compliance Report shows 98.95% participating seafood company conformance rate with science-based conservation measures; Compliance Report also highlights ProActive Vessel Register Vessel Conformance for the first time the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) released its 2023 annual report, titled ‘Navigating Toward Sustainable Tuna Fisheries’, which presents the organisation’s accomplishments on the path to more sustainable tuna fisheries — especially through collaboration with tuna vessels, fishers and other partners in the seafood industry. “Skilled, conscientious fishers in all oceans take proactive steps every day to protect marine life — avoiding overfishing, reducing bycatch and providing data for scientific and compliance reporting — while harvesting their catch. As one indicator of the strides they have made, more than 65 tuna fisheries are certified by the ...