Norpac Fisheries Export Feature on The Champ Show
Champ Kaneshiro visits Norpac Fisheries Export in Honolulu, Hawaii, and takes a tour of our processing facility.
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New fishery improvement projects in Indonesia cover tuna, snapper, and grouper
Seafood Source - The Nature Conservancy has been working on Indonesia’s groundfish fishery since 2014, though the FIP was officially launched in 2019. So far, 10 companies have signed on to the FIP: Norpac Fisheries Export, Anova Food, Bali Sustainable Seafood, LP Foods, Netuno USA, Bahari Biru Nusantara, Graha Insan Sejahtera, Kharisma Bintang Terang, Solusi Laut Lestari, and Sukses Hasil Alam Nusaindo (Shanindo).
Why Restaurant Demand For Smaller Fish Fillets Is Bad News For Oceans
NPR - Bigger isn't necessarily better when it comes to catching, selling and eating fish. For certain snappers, in fact, a market preference for plate-size whole fillets is driving fishermen to target smaller fish. For some wild fish populations, this is a recipe for collapse.
Bigeye Tuna From FIP to MSC Certification
Sustainable Fisheries UW - In March 2019, a Chinese-operated longline bigeye tuna fishery, located in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), became the first of its kind to earn Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification…
Counting on Fish
The Nature Conservancy - Centuries of fishing tradition weave through communities along the rugged Maine coastline. In the midcoast village of Port Clyde, at the tip of the St. George Peninsula, fourth-generation fisherman Randy Cushman has chased groundfish such as flounder, hake, sole, cod and pollock for 45 years—35 of them as captain and most on his 45-foot trawler, the Ella Christine.
Tech solutions to tackle overfishing, labor abuse at sea
Phys Org - Thomas Kraft at Norpac Fisheries Export established one of the industry's first bar-code systems that give each fish a tag that can provide details about location, boat, species, and weight. He's been using the technology in locations worldwide and says it could easily be expanded to include crews on individual boats to help fight against labor abuse.
The Sustainable Oceans Lab. Voices and results 2016.
GIZ - How can we work together to enhance the sustainable management of our marine ecosystems globally? The Sustainable Oceans Lab represents a new approach to the challenge of ensuring that our marine ecosystems are sustainable…
Norpac owner Kraft sees promise in electronic traceability pilot in Indonesia
In 2014 Thomas Kraft, owner of US-based Norpac Fisheries Export, along with the Indonesian branch of The Nature Conservancy (TNC)...
Care about sustainable fishing? You need to care about climate change too
The Guardian - The seafood industry is facing challenges on many fronts – reduced catch, supply chain inefficiencies, inability to trace origins of products, food safety issues, ocean acidification and other climate-change-related habitat changes, as well as multiple other concerns.