Press Releases

The Global Roundtable on Marine Ingredients welcomes the latest FAO’s State of the World Fisheries and Aquaculture report on 29th June 2022, launched at the recent UN Ocean Conference. This is FAO Fisheries & Aquaculture flagship, biennial, publication that under pins considerable aquatic food production activity and policy around the world. 

The theme of this year’s report is one of FAO’s priority areas: “Towards Blue Transformation,” a vision for sustainably transforming aquatic food systems. The core objectives—sustainable aquaculture expansion and intensification, effective management of all fisheries, and upgraded value chains—are shared by Members of the Global Roundtable.

Árni M. Mathiesen, Independent Chair of the Global Roundtable on Marine Ingredients, provided an update yesterday at the North Atlantic Seafood Forum held in Bergen, Norway, on the work undertaken by its Members* in three directions: West Africa, South / Southeast Asia and life cycle assessment analyses. He also announced that a new member had joined the pre-competitive platform: the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC).

Press conference held at the North Atlantic Seafood Forum (Bergen, Norway) on 21st June 2022.

The Global Roundtable on Marine Ingredients was launched in October 2021, with two objectives: increasing the availability of sustainable marine ingredients and driving environmental and social improvements in key reduction fisheries globally. Olvea, Biomar, Cargill, Skretting, Aquaculture Stewardship Council, MarinTrust, Global Seafood Alliance, Nestlé and the Federation of European Aquaculture producers have joined this initiative which was set up by Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) and IFFO, The Marine Ingredients Organisation. 

(31th March)  The members of the Global Roundtable on Marine Ingredients congratulate the Government of Mauritania for initiating the development of a management plan for the small pelagics fishery in 2018/19, which is essential for its ongoing sustainable development. They note a number of environmental and social concerns about some regional fisheries. In a document contributing to the FIP management plan, currently open to consultation, they express their support for the management plan process and put forward their suggestions for how the management plan might look. 

(8th March)  Members of the Global Roundtable on Marine Ingredients welcome the report which the FAO published on 21stJanuary 2022, entitled Socio-economic and biological impacts of the fish-based feed industry for sub-Saharan Africa. The report presents an objective assessment of regional challenges, and provides an important platform to guide continued engagement. The Global Roundtable on Marine Ingredients was formed as a precompetitive platform to drive social and environmental improvements in key fisheries and regions globally, with West Africa a top priority.