April 26, 2023 — Twenty-three of 25 companies partnered with the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) were operating in 100 percent compliance with the organization’s sustainable fishing measures, according to a new report.
The nonprofit’s Annual Conservation Measures and Commitments Compliance Report records participating companies’ progress in following the best practices for sustaining tuna fisheries all around the world. The report tracks conformance across 33 conservation measures, including:
- submitting quarterly purchase data by vessel, dates, species, and size;
- working only with longline vessels that have policies protecting sharks and marine turtles;
- avoiding work with vessels engaged in shark finning or that are on the regional fishery management organization IUU lists, and;
- only conducting transactions with purse-seine vessels who have received best practices information from ISSF