Japan IUU – a big win in the fight against illegal seafood – next stop China?

https://www.packard.org/insights/perspectives/a-big-win-in-the-fight-against-illegal-seafood-lessons-from-the-coalition-that-made-it-happen/

welcomed tightening of USA IUU seafood – illegal prawn imports by cowboys.

2019 – 11% seafood into USA from IUU

….and 9% farmed seafood fed IUU derived fishmeal.

Here’s hoping these figures go down down down

9% of farmed seafood entering USA in 2019 was grown with IUUU fishmeal…but trend, with traceability and transparency, thankfully is going down…

SE Asia the big culprit – Plus U.S. imported $2.4 billion in illegally fished seafood in 2019