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In its reply to a letter from NGOs concerned about the imports of salmon fed with fish feed from West Africa, DG MARE confirmed that it is “currently reflecting internally on a potential fisheries-specific sustainability scheme applying to products imported to the EU”, to ensure such products do not contribute to food insecurity or environmental issues in non-EU countries “to stay within the limits of the EU commitments in the World Trade Organization.” We need a similar analysis from DG MARE for sea bream and sea bass grown inside the EU, also fed with fish feed imported from West Africa #sustainablefisheries #sustainablelivelihoods #fishfarmsout #sustainableaquaculture Eva Patti Ann Andrianna Nusa Natasha Catalina Agustina Hannah

🚀 Tasmanians want salmon farms out of vulnerable state waters 📌 In 2023, we awarded a grant to NOFF (Neighbours of Fish Farming) to support their work in protecting Tasmania from salmon farming. The team at NOFF, including Peter George, Jess Coughlan, and Matthew Redgrove, has been instrumental in raising awareness about the harmful impacts of the Atlantic salmon industry in Tasmania through: ✅ Social media campaigns. ✅The Australian launch of Off the Table. ✅An impactful national billboard campaign. 📈 As awareness grows across Australia, recent polls show that 72% of Tasmanians want the industry out of shallow, vulnerable state waters. This sentiment reflects a strong public consensus, with Eloise Carr, Director of The Australia Institute, stating that "when it comes to protecting Tasmania’s coast, we have public opinion and scientific evidence on one side, and the vested interests of the salmon industry on the other.” 💀These interests are fueled by the vast lobbying power and resources of the industry, and while the Government has so far resisted supporting the Parliamentary Inquiry’s recommendation to remove salmon farms from sensitive and biodiverse areas, the fight to preserve Tasmania’s waters continues—and we won't quit until we get those #fishfarmsout. Keep raising your voice Neighbours of Fish Farming, people are listening! Check out poll results here: https://lnkd.in/du8mbJJb Learn more about why chefs in Australia and around the world are taking salmon #offthetable here: https://lnkd.in/d6T9Gqqx And follow us to hear about 2024 grantees in the upcoming weeks ;) #gsfrgrants #salmon #oceanconservation #tasmania

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸, 𝗮 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗹𝗶𝘁 𝘂𝗽 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗬𝗼𝗿𝗸, 𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀: "𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺." The video exposes the damaging effects of salmon farming in Chilean Patagonia, highlighting that 420 salmon farms operate within protected parks and reserves, polluting these once-pristine areas. The United States is the largest importer of Chilean salmon and for this, raising awareness among consumers here is a fundamental aspect in a campaign that aims to remove salmon farms from protected areas in the southern country. 🙌 At The GSFR, we celebrate this milestone and the relentless work of our members in Chile, who strive daily to safeguard the Patagonian sea. 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗱, 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘯, particularly within marine protected areas, which fail to their very purpose by enabling such damaging operations. Support the campaign! Watch the video and share it with your network. ;) We want #fishfarmsout of protected areas and out of the world's oceans.

Last week we, alongside more than 30 other eNGOs, businesses, individuals and organisations led by Pasture for Life , sent a letter to Defra Director General for Strategy and Water David Hill and Farming and Countryside Programme Director Janet Hughes. 📝 We urge a review of the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) action for Herbal Leys (CSAM3).  🌱 We celebrate the potential benefits of herbal leys to livestock production and health, soil health and biodiversity, and nutrient efficiency. But we have concerns about CSAM3.  🚜 The scale of uptake and stories within our community suggest that farmers are being incentivised to spray off or plough even good quality permanent pasture because the payment rates for herbal leys just stack up better. ❌This has potentially serious negative impacts on biodiversity across England.  🤝 In collaboration with 30 farming groups and organisations, we have set recommendations to avoid inadvertently spending taxpayer money on poor environmental outcomes. Defra, please review CSAM3. Reward farmers for restoration.  Read the full letter and see our five recommendations.  👇 https://lnkd.in/edD8jgzv . . #FarmWildlife #BuglifeCampaign #SustainableFarming

European #shellfish producers call for a common #aquaculture policy in the European Union, and more coastal space for low-trophic farming.🌊🦪🇪🇺 💡 The #European #Mollusc Producers Association (EMPA) has launched a #Manifesto for the #SustainableDevelopment of the European Shellfish Sector. 🦪 Representing shellfish #farmers from Spain, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Italy and Ireland, the manifesto, presented by EMPA president Addy Risseeuw in Brussels last week, makes the following 5 key recommendations: 1. Acknowledge the role of shellfish farming in reinforcing Europe’s #food sustainability, safety, sovereignty and #nutrition. 2. Triple the area allocated to shellfish farming to increase the production and the associated environmental and economic benefits. 3. Leverage the development of shellfish farming to accelerate #waterquality improvement. 4. Recognise the #EcosystemServices provided by shellfish farming activities in support of the EU’s environmental and #climate goals. 5. Create a #CommonAquaculturePolicy. ✨ Read more details here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dpN39-X7

On #WorldFoodDay, it's critical to remember that 1/3rd of global food production depends on rivers. Yet they remain overlooked & undervalued and are facing growing pressures – undermining global food security. WWF's #RiversofFood analysis, which was supported by the Pictet Group Foundation, outlined four key components of food production that rely on rivers - freshwater fisheries & aquaculture, irrigation, and delta and flood recession agriculture. But across the world, rivers are being degraded - often by unsustainable agricultural practices. Ironically, undermining their ability to produce food. We need to strengthen the resilience of our river systems by transforming food production, ensuring sustainable wild fisheries and aquaculture, and adopting healthy and sustainable diets. And critically, we need to protect and restore healthy rivers. All countries should join the Freshwater Challenge to do exactly this: its goal is to ensure 300,000km of degraded rivers are under restoration by 2030 as well as to protect healthy, connected rivers. Want to know more? Take a look through our fantastic interactive microsite on Rivers of Food, which shows that we will not be able to sustainably feed 10 billion people by 2050 without managing our rivers so they are healthy and resilient https://lnkd.in/e3CEibGb Stuart Orr Jeff Opperman Brent Loken Joao Campari Lifeng LI Jesse Gallun Melissa D. Ho Kerry Cesareo Jodie Bignall Mina Guli Francesca Antonelli Marc Goichot Heron Holloway Lewis Pugh Dean Muruven Michele Thieme Alice Ruhweza Daudi Sumba Christine Sandström Essenia Budina

This week I addressed the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee to draw attention to the challenges Maltese farmers are facing due to drought. With just 249mm of rainfall recorded last year— technically desert conditions —our farmers are struggling to sustain their crops, often spending thousands of euros on water just to cover return on investment. During my intervention, I called on the European Commission to open flexibilities for EU support to compensate farmers for drought-related losses and to adapt its criteria to account for the realities of agriculture in the Mediterranean. Malta’ drought crisis is also discouraging young people from entering the agricultural sector, a crucial sector that benefits us all. #EU #Agriculture #MalteseFarmers #DroughtRelief #FoodSecurity

🐟🍽️ In an article about farmed salmon by K-Tipp No. 15 of 18 September 2024, our fish biologist, Yannick Rohrer gives tips on eating fish. Given the major problems in salmon farming, farmed salmon is not justifiable. But even wild-caught salmon is problematic because Atlantic salmon is on the list of endangered species ⚠️. In the Pacific, there are some healthy other stocks of salmon species, for example in Alaska and Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇸. However, it is difficult to find fishes from such stocks in shops. The declaration requirements are too poor for this.   fair-fish takes the position that wild fish from non-endangered stocks of the European anchovy and the king mackerel are acceptable. Even more ethical and environmentally friendly are mainly herbivorous fishes such as carp and tilapia from extensive pond farming.   👉 Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/dSVUcKt5   📷: Catherine Herriger   #sustainability #animalwelfare #salmonfarming #seafish #fishconsumption #ethics #environmentalprotection #wildfish #speciesprotection #sustainablenutrition

Check out the Spring Cane Matters for a recap of the Bioeconomy in Focus webinar series! Jane Trindall Ian O'Hara #bioeconomy