Fishing communities gain access to markets and protect livelihoods and ecosystems through certification
Additional Resources
- WorldFish Center - WorldFish Center (formerly International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management ( ICLARM )) is an international, non-profit, non-governmental organization working in partnership with a wide range of government and non-governmental agencies at regional, national and local levels in the developing world, and with advanced research institutions worldwide. It is one of the 15 international agricultural research Centers supported by the CGIAR.
- Fishery Resources Monitoring System (FIRMS) - The primary aim of FIRMS is to provide access to a wide range of high-quality information on the global monitoring and management of fishery marine resources.
- FishBase - FishBase is a global information system initiated by WorldFish Center and FAO providing a relational database with information to cater to different professionals such as research scientists, fisheries managers, zoologists and others.
- International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET) - IIFET is an international group of economists, government managers, private industry members, and others interested in the exchange of research and information on marine resource issues. The website provides information about fisheries, aquaculture, or marine resource economics, domestic or international trade in seafood, development or use of marine resources, fisheries management, etc.
- The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) - The ICES coordinates and promotes marine research on oceanography, the marine environment, the marine ecosystem, and on living marine resources in the North Atlantic.
- Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) - ASC is an independent not for profit organisation. The ASC was founded in 2009 by WWF and IDH (Dutch Sustainable Trade Initiative) to manage the global standards for responsible aquaculture, which are under development by the Aquaculture Dialogues, a programme of roundtables initiated and coordinated by WWF . Currently the ASC is in its business development phase. The ASC is expected to be in full operation by mid 2011.
- FAO Trade and Markets, Environmental and social certification for responsible agricultural production and trade
- World Bank Global Program on Fisheries (PROFISH)
- World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Aquaculture Dialogues
- WWF report: Assessment of On-Pack, Wild-Capture Seafood Sustainability Certification Programmes and Seafood Ecolabels http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/how_we_work/conservation/marine/publications/?186161/Assessment-of-On-Pack-Wild-Capture-Seafood-Sustainability-Certification-Programmes-and-Seafood-Ecolabels
- Good Fisheries Governance ALL FISH www.allfish.org
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