The Gulf of Saint Lawrence Allied Fisheries
Chionoecetes opilio
CANADA | Gulf of St. Lawrence
FAO Fishing Area 21 (Atlantic, Northwest)
Pot /Trap Gear
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GULF OF ST.LAWRENCE ALLIED FISHERIES
SEAFOOD WATCH RATING AND OUR FIP
September 2022
FIP's Leaders
Our FIP
What is a FIP ?
What is a FIP ?
What is a FIP ?
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.
Goal of our FIP
What is a FIP ?
What is a FIP ?
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.
FIP Overview
What is a FIP ?
FIP Overview
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.
What MSC has to say about our Comprehensive FIP
“Meeting the MSC standard takes considerable ongoing effort and investment by fisheries. We commend the tremendous amount of work the southern gulf of St. Lawrence snow crab fishery has put into reducing and eliminating its interactions with North Atlantic Right Whales in close collaboration with DFO and many other stakeholders. We support their continued efforts and commitment to regain MSC certification at the completion of their improvement project."
Kurtis Hayne-Program Director, Canada
Marine Stewardship Council
ONG SUPPORTERS
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.
Our Funders
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
THANK YOU
THE GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE ALLIED FISHERIES.
We are pioneers of the First commercial fishing of ropeless systems in North America.
In 2022, 24 Fishermen with each 50 ropeless gear were allowed to in an area that was otherwise closed to protected NARW.
Our sponsors supported directly their fishermen suppliers.
With their contribution, they allow more gear testing in otherwise closed area to help harvesters transition to whalesafe gear.
