About 44 percent of global coldwater crab production can be classified as sustainable or improving, and that number can improve quickly with more effort in North America and Europe, according to the newest sector report released by Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP).
The report, released today, is the latest sector report focused on SFP’s Target 75 Initiative, a global movement launched last year that sets the goal of seeing producers of 75 percent of the world’s seafood operating sustainably or improving toward sustainable production by the close of 2020.
According to the report, A great deal of the coldwater crab that is not yet considered sustainable or improving is in the US, Canada and Europe, where markets are already engaged in sustainability. This places buyers in these markets in a position to use their influence to promote fishery improvement projects (FIPs) or assessment for Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification.
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