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Roundtable provides an update at NASF 2022

Addressing food security through the lens of marine ingredients

 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). Recordings of the conference are available here. 


West Africa: supporting efforts aimed at ensuring food security 

Members of the Global Roundtable on Marine Ingredients are adamant that the fishmeal and fish oil industry shouldn’t undermine food security. The Mauritania Small Pelagics Fishery Improvement Project (FIP) is a tangible and long-term commitment by the seafood supply chain to drive positive changes in the small pelagic fisheries, which Members believe has the potential to create an enabling environment in which regulators feel confident to act. The Global Roundtable supports further research in the region and has been working in connection with the FAO who released a report early 2022 (Socio-economic and biological impacts of the fish-based feed industry for sub-Saharan Africa – see the Global Roundtable comments here). The Roundtable is currently expanding regional due diligence efforts to better understand how member and related supply chains fit into the overall situation in West Africa, and what opportunities there are for Roundtable Members to best support improvements including refocusing supply chains for human consumption while maintaining high quality byproducts for marine ingredients.   


South / Southeast Asia: several ongoing projects in India, Vietnam and the Gulf of Thailand 

Dave Martin, Program Director at Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP), provided an update on the FAO Gulf of Thailand Fish project which SFP has been assisting on since 2019. Aims are to promote the Blue Economy and strengthen Fisheries Governance of the Gulf of Thailand through an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries.  


One interesting aspect in this project is the focus on multispecies fisheries, which is also a priority for MarinTrust’s work in Asia according to Libby Woodhatch, Executive Chair at MarinTrust. Two fishery improvement projects (FIP) have already been accepted onto the Improver Programme as part of MarinTrust’s multispecies pilot project, she explained: the Gulf of Thailand mixed-trawl fishery and the Vung Tau multispecies fishery, in Vietnam. As for India, the Indian Oil Sardine FIP (Goa and Maharashtra) fishery was accepted onto the Improver Programme in October 2019 as the first accepted Fishery Improvement project (FIP) in Asia under the MarinTrust Improver Programme.  


Furthermore, the Roundtable has started a specific work plan on India, which is led by Global Seafood Alliance’s Steve Hart, Vice President. Interested parties are convened with Roundtable members to encourage support for Indian project(s) to establish whether the market will help support the further development of FIPs and encourage the development of processing by-product marine ingredient sources in regions where processing waste is underutilized.  


Assessing environmental impacts through life cycle assessment analyses 

The overall aim of life cycle assessment is to provide a comprehensive assessment of the full (global) impact of feed-production and avoid trade-offs or cross-subsidisations of sectors through incomplete sustainability accounting. IFFO – The Marine Ingredients Organisation is leading this work stream with the support of the Global Feed Life cycle assessment Institute (GFLI), D Brett Glencross, IFFO’s Technical Director, explained. 


Petter Johannessen, IFFO’s Director General, concluded by inviting stakeholders throughout the value chain to join the platform.   


The Global Roundtable on Marine Ingredients was launched by Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) and IFFO, The Marine Ingredients Organisation in October 2021, with two objectives increasing the availability of sustainable marine ingredients and driving environmental and social improvements in key reduction fisheries globally.  


*Current Members are Olvea, Biomar, Cargill, Skretting, Aquaculture Stewardship Council, MarinTrust, Global Seafood Alliance, Nestlé and the Federation of European Aquaculture producers  


Contact & info:  contact@marinegrt.com 

This press release was published on 23rd June 2022

Video

Press Conference Recording

21st June 2022 at North Atlantic Seafood Forum (Bergen, Norway) 

Dave Martin, Program Director, Sustainable Fisheries Partnership

South East Asian Fisheries

Steve Hart, Global Seafood Alliance (GSA) & Iain Pollard, Key Traceability

Update on the South and Southeast Asia Marine Ingredients Work Group

Brett Glencross, Technical Director, IFFO

Update on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Work Group

Photo 1:  Shutterstock 11473905672 (LuYago) 


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