Ocean Wise wins CAN 850,000 to assess understudied indigenous fisheries’ sustainability – Seafood Source
February 5, 2025
NGO Ocean Wise has been awarded CAN 850,000 (USD 592,865) to support and assess the sustainability practices of three Canadian First Nation communities, in alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Though small fisheries account for forty percent of seafood harvested globally and employ 90 percent of the workers in the seafood industry, they are notoriously hard to assess by standard assessment measures, according to Ocean Wise, and are often forgotten when sustainability efforts are quantified.
The project’s assessment methodology will center indigenous knowledge to help measure and report on the progress of the UN goals in these communities.
