{"id":6690,"date":"2021-10-11T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2021\/10\/11\/north-atlantic-blue-whiting-fip\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T00:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T23:01:16","slug":"north-atlantic-blue-whiting-fip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/north-atlantic-blue-whiting-fip\/","title":{"rendered":"North Atlantic blue whiting FIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FIP covers blue whiting in FAO area 27 and subareas 1\u20139, 12 and 14.&nbsp;Blue whiting fisheries from these areas lost their MSC certifications in December 2020 because of ongoing disagreements between coastal states which led to unilateral quota-setting. This, says the North Atlantic Pelagic Advocacy Group, is leading to annual catches exceeding levels needed to ensure the sustainability of the species by 30%.<\/p>\n<p>Loss of MSC certification and the consequential loss of MarinTrust certification is also having a major impact on businesses which rely on sustainable marine ingredients in feed. \u201cWe are calling on the&nbsp;North East&nbsp;Atlantic Fisheries Commission coastal states to agree quotas in line with scientific advice and implement a long-term science-based management plan for blue whiting,\u201d said Napa member, Skretting Norway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould progress falter, or the FIP fail,&nbsp;we will continue our stand to not source fishmeal containing uncertified blue whiting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Napa is calling on coastal states to follow advice from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, implement management plans, resolve allocation issues and implement a dispute resolution process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collective of retailers and supply chain businesses has launched a \u2018policy fisheries improvement project (FIP)\u2019 to help secure the sustainable management of blue whiting in the North Atlantic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-6690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6692,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690\/revisions\/6692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6690"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=6690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}