December 19, 2022 — Overfishing is often seen as a strictly environmental concern, but the issue should be also looked at through an economic lens, according to the new seafood-focused non-governmental organization Accountability.Fish.
Accountability.Fish was created to raise awareness of what it deems as “the under-monitored and murky politics” of regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs). It seeks to support underrepresented stakeholders in the RFMO decision-making processes, to improve accountability in RFMO decision-making, and to influence RFMOs to take more economically and environmentally sustainable actions.