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 A fishery improvement project is a multistakeholder effort to address environmental challenges in a fishery. These projects utilize the power of the private sector to incentivize positive changes toward sustainability in the fishery and seek to make these changes endure through policy change. 

 The goal of this Fishery Improvement Project is to help the fishery make the environmental and management changes necessary that allow it to reinstate  a full assessment against a  standard for sustainable fisheries. 

This  FIP will cover improvements to endangered, threatened, and protected (ETP) species impacts in the Gulf of St. Lawrence snow crab fishery to mitigate the risk to NARW and other ETP species, while maintaining a sustainable Canadian seafood industry.  

 SFP is a marine conservation nonprofit dedicated to helping the seafood supply chain function in as environmentally-friendly a fashion as possible. We do this by approaching industry stakeholders, alerting them to sustainability problems within the supply chain, and making it easy for them to make positive changes; our Target 75 initiative is challenging the global seafood industry to work toward the goal of seeing 75 percent of the world’s seafood by volume produced in a manner that can be labeled sustainable or improving toward sustainability. 

The New England Aquarium’s Sustainable Seafood Programs aim to protect the world’s ocean resources by raising public awareness and by working with the seafood industry to advance sustainable practices within wild-capture fisheries and aquaculture operations.

Industry partnerships. We increase responsible seafood sourcing by working through seafood supply chains.

Our Vision is the sustainable co-existence of whales and humans.

Our Mission is to conduct and support activities to better understand and protect marine mammals and to promote awareness and responsibility for their habitats.

Collaborating with marine industries to mutually develop solutions in an effort to mitigate the effects their activities may have on marine mammals, with a focus on the North Atlantic right whale.

Conducting scientific research, sharing knowledge, and advancing evidence-based solutions.