Course: Sustainable Seafood: Barriers and Opportunities in the Fishing Industry

As we’ve explored in the previous step, the seafood value chain is complex, transboundary, and relies on a wide variety of stakeholders to provide the seafood choices we see on …

Phytoplankton is the collective name for free-floating microscopic marine organisms that are found throughout the world’s lakes and oceans. Although microscopic in size, phytoplankton underpins all life on earth: these …

While the word ‘sustainability’ is often associated with environmental impacts, there are a few other important factors to consider when it comes to creating truly sustainable food industries. According to …

In this step, we shine a light on SafetyNet Technologies (SNTech), a company whose primary goal is to design and build precision fishing devices to increase the breadth of commercial …

Do we know how fish are caught? Which methods and tools are used? Or, how various methods of fishing can impact the environment? Which are the three most common fishing …

What is involved in getting seafood from the ocean to our plates? Globally, the commercial fisheries sector provides around 40 million people with jobs, with over 200 million more indirectly …