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Overview

By volume, China is the largest squid fishing and processing country in the world. The East China Sea and Yellow Sea, fished by Korean, Japanese, and Chinese fishing vessels, are significant squid fishing grounds. It’s there that Chinese trawl, purse seine, and gillnet vessels target Todarodes pacificus, or Japanese flying squid (JFS) together with other finfish species. JFS are highly migratory, having a broad geographic distribution and inhabiting both the open ocean and coastal regions of Northeast Asia. While there are great diversity and scope of JFS fisheries across Northeast Asia, the East China Sea and Yellow Sea Squid FIP will initially focus on improving Chinese JFS trawl fisheries operating within Chinese jurisdictions in East China and Yellow Seas. The primary markets for this product are the European Union, United States, Japan, and South Korea, although better supply chain analysis is needed to fully understand product flow and to elucidate any other squid species product mixing which might occur.

By volume, China is the largest squid fishing and processing country in the world. The East China Sea and Yellow Sea, fished by Korean, Japanese, and Chinese fishing vessels, are significant squid fishing grounds. It’s there that Chinese trawl, purse seine, and gillnet vessels target Todarodes pacificus, or Japanese flying squid (JFS) together with other finfish species. JFS are highly migratory, having a broad geographic distribution and inhabiting both the open ocean and coastal regions of Northeast Asia.

FIP Leads

Organization Name 
Ocean Outcomes
Organization Type 
NGO
Primary Contact 
Jocelyn Drugan
Organization Name 
China Aquatic Products Processing and Marketing Alliance (CAPPMA)
Organization Type 
Industry
Primary Contact 
He Cui
Organization Name 
Tao Ran
Organization Type 
Consultant
Primary Contact 
Songlin Wang
Email 
FIP Identification Number The FIP Identification Number is automatically generated by FisheryProgress when a FIP profile is created. While the number itself is not meaningful, they are used by NGOs, academia, and industry to refer to FIPs in a consistent way.
9321

Overview

Squid FIP and Octopus FIP was initiated by Beaver Street Fisheries and Shantou Haimao Foods Co.Ltd. in late 2013 and beginning of 2018. facilitated by Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP). The FIP successfully engaged various stakeholders with coordination from Fenjie Chen, including national institutes (i.e. China Society of Fisheries, South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fisheries Science (SCSFRI), Shanghai Ocean Univerisity; local fishery authorities (i.e. Shantou Agriculture and Rural Bureau (SARB); local industry association (i.e.Shantou Fisheries Industry Association (SFIA), and leading international squid buyers and main processors in China. 

Basic Information:

1- Target Stock: the fishery of common Chinese squid (Uroteuthis chinensis) and shortarm octopus (Octopus Ocellatus) within the Eastern Guangdong (Shantou) - Taiwan Bank Fishing Ground (21°50'- 23°30'N, 116 °00'-119°30'E)

2- Fishing gear: jigging (squid&octopus) and single trawling (squid)

3- Fleet involved: Licensed vessels fishing in Shantou-Taiwan Bank Fishing Ground from Guangdong and Fujian provinces.

Squid FIP and Octopus FIP was initiated by Beaver Street Fisheries and Shantou Haimao Foods Co.Ltd. in late 2013 and beginning of 2018. facilitated by Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP). The FIP successfully engaged various stakeholders with coordination from Fenjie Chen, including national institutes (i.e. China Society of Fisheries, South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fisheries Science (SCSFRI), Shanghai Ocean Univerisity; local fishery authorities (i.e.

FIP Leads

Organization Name 
Fenjie Chen
Organization Type 
Consultant
Primary Contact 
Fenjie Chen
Phone 
+86-13534908624
FIP Identification Number The FIP Identification Number is automatically generated by FisheryProgress when a FIP profile is created. While the number itself is not meaningful, they are used by NGOs, academia, and industry to refer to FIPs in a consistent way.
7801

Overview

What is a Completed FIP?

Completed FIPs are those that have independent verification that they have achieved their environmental objectives and/or graduated to MSC full assessment or other program assessment. Completed FIPs no longer report on their environmental performance but may choose to voluntarily report on their social performance.

Date of Completion: Jul 2019

Explanation of Completion: FIP remains MSC certified since 2016.

Completion Link

The FIP concentrates on continual improvement of retained bycatch management measures to aid in the recovery of GOM/GB Atlantic Cod, GOM/GB yellowtail flounder, GB Winter flounder, and Witch flounder. The current management system encompasses a clear process for which improvements can be tested, approved and put into legislation. This processes starts with ideas generated and tested at the sector level, and if successful, these ideas become documented rules in the sector's operational plan. If these sector rules are effective and adopted by all sectors, these rules can then be put forth as permanent management measures - if passed, they would then be listed on the federal register. Numerous bycatch improvements have entered this process, some of which are legislation today and some that are still being tested.

On August 16th, 2018 Atlantic Coast Seafood, Inc. joined the MSC certificate for this fishery. https://fisheries.msc.org/en/fisheries/us-acadian-redfish-haddock-and-po...

FIPプロフィールレポート

The FIP concentrates on continual improvement of retained bycatch management measures to aid in the recovery of GOM/GB Atlantic Cod, GOM/GB yellowtail flounder, GB Winter flounder, and Witch flounder. The current management system encompasses a clear process for which improvements can be tested, approved and put into legislation. This processes starts with ideas generated and tested at the sector level, and if successful, these ideas become documented rules in the sector's operational plan.

FIP at a Glance

View current status
February 01, 2017
7% 93%
Progress Rating (A) Advanced Progress

Reserved for comprehensive FIPs that have achieved a Stage 4 or 5 result within the past 12 months.

(B) Good Progress

A basic FIP that has achieved a Stage 4 or 5 result within 12 months.

(C) Some Recent Progress
  • A FIP that has achieved a Stage 4 or 5 result in more than 12 (but less than 24) months AND has reported a Stage 3 activity within the past six months.
  • A FIP younger than 12 months that has never achieved a Stage 4 or 5 result but has reported a Stage 3 activity within the first 12 months.
(D) Some Past Progress
  • A FIP that has achieved a Stage 4 or 5 result in more than 12 (but less than 24) months BUT has not reported a Stage 3 activity within the past six months.
  • A FIP for which the most recent Stage 4 or 5 result is more than 24 (but less than 36) months old AND a Stage 3 activity has been reported within six months.
  • A FIP 12-36 months old that has never reported a Stage 4 or 5 result AND has reported a Stage 3 activity within the past six months.
(E) Negligible Progress
  • A FIP for which the most recent Stage 4 or 5 result is more than 24 (but less than 36) months old, with no Stage 3 activity reported in the last six months.
  • A FIP younger than 12 months with no Stage 3 activity reported within 12 months.
  • A FIP 12-36 months old that has never reported a Stage 4 or 5 result AND has not reported a Stage 3 activity within the past six months.

The ratings are currently derived by SFP from publicly available data on FIP websites, including FisheryProgress.org, and are determined using the following methodology: View PDF

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Actions Complete

This pie chart represents completed environmental actions. Non-completed environmental actions may contain completed sub-tasks that are not illustrated here. For more information on environmental action progress visit the Actions Progress tab.

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Target End Date
Feb 2018
Additional Impacts:
TraceabilityIUU

FIP Leads

Organization Name 
BackTracker Inc. (Atlantic Coast Seafood Inc.)
Organization Type 
Consultant
Primary Contact 
Michael Carroll
Phone 
617-640-8126
Organization Name 
Atlantic Coast Seafood Inc.
Organization Type 
Industry
Primary Contact 
Tory Bramante
Phone 
617-482-0040
FIP Identification Number The FIP Identification Number is automatically generated by FisheryProgress when a FIP profile is created. While the number itself is not meaningful, they are used by NGOs, academia, and industry to refer to FIPs in a consistent way.
2771

Overview

Note: This FIP went inactive on December 3, 2018.

The New England whiting fishery is a small mesh trawl fishery. The FIP will help to reduce bycatch of flatfish, haddock and cod. 

The whiting stock has recovered from overfishing and currently has a low probability of overfishing.  Silver Dollar Seafood and others support progress on Amendment 22 (A22) to the Small-mesh Multispecies Fishery Management Plan, which is meant to establish the whiting fishery as a limited access fishery.  It will put a cap on the number of participants in the fishery and is being taken up as a way to reduce bycatch, make the fishery more easily manageable, and reduce the future risk of overfishing.

The fishery is managed and assessed in context of multispecies and multi-gear fisheries targeting silver hake and uncertainties and challenges facing the stock assessment have been considered (Helser and Alavade 2012).  Corrective management measures are initiated through annual quota limitations in U.S. waters.  Boats can fish for whiting with small mesh (3"), but smaller mesh is penalized with much smaller catch limits.  Use of larger mesh gear is encouraged so juveniles can escape. The FIP will promote bycatch reduction measures and encourage incentives (higher trip limits, permission to fish in the northern area) for vessels using larger mesh sizes to improve selectivity.

Note: This FIP went inactive on December 3, 2018.

The New England whiting fishery is a small mesh trawl fishery. The FIP will help to reduce bycatch of flatfish, haddock and cod. 

FIP Leads

Organization Name 
Silver Dollar Seafood
Organization Type 
Industry
Primary Contact 
Dan Farnham
Phone 
6313742796
FIP Identification Number The FIP Identification Number is automatically generated by FisheryProgress when a FIP profile is created. While the number itself is not meaningful, they are used by NGOs, academia, and industry to refer to FIPs in a consistent way.
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