July 18, 2024 — IFFO has responded to a report accusing the organization as being rife with conflicts of interest.
The report by environment-focused news website DeSmog, “Revealed: Industry-led West Africa Fishery Protection Measures Marred By ‘Massive Conflicts of Interest,” accused IFFO’s sustainability initiatives, including the Global Roundtable on Marine Ingredients and the MarinTrust certification program – ostensibly independent but founded by IFFO in 2009 – as protecting industry interests over local communities in West Africa, where MarinTrust and IFFO members have established a fishery improvement project in Mauritanian waters that has been criticized as not achieving significant progress.