Ocean Disclosure Project 2015
Key
Midwater trawl Hook and lines Long lines Seine nets Purse seine Gillnets Pots and traps Bottom trawls Dredge
Bycatch Protected, endangered & threatened (PET) species Wider food web Benthic habitat General notes
Certification Fishery name and location Fishing gear used or FIP Category Environmental notes
Antarctic krill No direct impact on PET species. Atlantic Southern Ocean This fish plays an important role in the marine food web and so potential impacts on the wider marine Antarctica Certified ecosystem must be monitored.
No impact on the benthic habitat.
Atlantic menhaden No direct impact on PET species. North-West Atlantic This fish plays an important role in the marine food web and so potential impacts on the wider marine United States Certified ecosystem must be monitored.
No impact on the benthic habitat.
European sprat No direct impact on PET species. North Sea This fish plays an important role in the marine food web and so potential impacts on the wider marine European Union Certified ecosystem must be monitored.
No impact on the benthic habitat.
*Please refer to the FishSource website for further information: www.fishsource.org Web: www.sustainablefish.org Email:[email protected] Certification Fishery name and location Fishing gear used or FIP Category Environmental notes Gulf menhaden No direct impact on PET species.
Gulf of Mexico Bycatch This fish plays an important role in the marine food web and so potential impacts United States Certified on the wider marine ecosystem must be monitored.
No impact on the benthic habitat. Protected, endangered & threatened (PET) species Midwater trawl Araucanian herring No direct impact on PET species. Chilean FIP rating is
This fish plays an important role in the marine food web and so potential impacts Gillnets Chile D, fishery is certified on the wider marine ecosystem must be monitored. No impact on the benthic habitat. Hook and lines Pots and traps Lesser sand-eel Bycatch is considered low in this fishery. Central Eastern North sea Sandeel is an important prey species for a variety of predators, including fish, European Union Certified marine mammals and seabirds. Fishing of sandeel has been found to affect some surface feeding bird species, especially kittiwake and sandwich tern. Long lines
Bottom trawls impact on the benthic habitat. Bottom trawls Wider food web
Anchoveta No direct impact on PET species.
Chilean regions III and IV (2) Seine nets This fish plays an important role in the marine food web and so potential impacts Chile Certified on the wider marine ecosystem must be monitored. Dredge Dredge No impact on the benthic habitat. Benthic habitat Purse seine Anchoveta Peruvian Northern Central No direct impact on PET species. stock This fish plays an important role in the marine food web and so potential impacts General notes Certified Peru on the wider marine ecosystem must be monitored.
No impact on the benthic habitat.
*Please refer to the FishSource website for further information: www.fishsource.org Web: www.sustainablefish.org Email:[email protected] Certification Fishery name and location Fishing gear used or FIP Category Environmental notes
Capelin Bycatch No direct impact on PET species. Icelandic This fish plays an important role in the marine food web and so potential impacts Iceland Certified on the wider marine ecosystem must be monitored. Protected, endangered & threatened (PET) species
No impact on the benthic habitat. Midwater trawl
Gillnets Boarfish No direct impact on PET species. North-East Atlantic (2) Hook and lines This fish plays an important role in the marine food web and so potential impacts European Union Certified
on the wider marine ecosystem must be monitored. Pots and traps
No impact on the benthic habitat. Long lines Bottom trawls Lesser sand-eel Wider food web Central Western North Sea (2) European Union Certified Insufficient information available on this fishery.* Seine nets Dredge Dredge Benthic habitat Purse seine Lesser sand-eel Shetland (2) European Union Certified Insufficient information available on this fishery.* General notes
*Please refer to the FishSource website for further information: www.fishsource.org Web: www.sustainablefish.org Email:[email protected] Certification Fishery name and location Fishing gear used or FIP Category Environmental notes
Blue whiting North-East Atlantic Bycatch EU, Iceland, Faroes, Norway No direct impact on PET species.
Certified This fish plays an important role in the marine food web and so potential impacts on the wider marine ecosystem must be monitored. Protected, endangered & threatened (PET) species Midwater trawl No impact on the benthic habitat.
Gillnets
Norway pout Hook and lines No direct impact on PET species. North Sea This fish plays an important role in the marine food web and so potential impacts Pots and traps European Union Certified on the wider marine ecosystem must be monitored.
No impact on the benthic habitat. Long lines Bottom trawls Wider food web European pilchard North-West Africa Southern No direct impact on PET species. stock This fish plays an important role in the marine food web and so potential impacts Seine nets Certified Morocco, Mauretania, Senegal on the wider marine ecosystem must be monitored.
No impact on the benthic habitat. Dredge Benthic habitat
Purse seine
Lesser sand-eel Bycatch is considered low in this fishery. SE North Sea Sandeel is an important prey species for a variety of predators, including fish, General notes European Union Certified marine mammals and seabirds. Fishing of sandeel has been found to affect some surface feeding bird species, especially kittiwake and sandwich tern.
Bottom trawls impact the benthic habitat.
*Please refer to the FishSource website for further information: www.fishsource.org Web: www.sustainablefish.org Email:[email protected] Certification Fishery name and location Fishing gear used or FIP Category Environmental notes Lesser sand-eel Bycatch is considered low in this fishery.
Dogger Bank area Bycatch Sandeel is an important prey species for a variety of predators, including fish, European Union Certified marine mammals and seabirds. Fishing of sandeel has been found to affect some surface feeding bird species, especially kittiwake and sandwich tern.
Bottom trawls impact on the benthic habitat. Protected, endangered & threatened (PET) species Midwater trawl Anchoveta Chilean regions xv-i-ii / No direct impact on PET species.
Southern Peruvian stock Gillnets This fish plays an important role in the marine food web and so potential impacts Certified Chile/Peru on the wider marine ecosystem must be monitored.
No impact on the benthic habitat. Hook and lines
Pots and traps European pilchard No direct impact on PET species. North-West Africa central stock Morocco, Mauretania, Senegal This fish plays an important role in the marine food web and so potential impacts
N/A Long lines on the wider marine ecosystem must be monitored. Bottom trawls No impact on the benthic habitat. Wider food web
Capelin No direct impact on PET species. Seine nets Barents Sea This fish plays an important role in the marine food web and so potential impacts Russia/Norway Certified on the wider marine ecosystem must be monitored. Dredge Benthic habitat
No impact on the benthic habitat.
Purse seine
Anchoveta No direct impact on PET species. Chilean regions V-X General notes This fish plays an important role in the marine food web and so potential impacts Chile Certified on the wider marine ecosystem must be monitored.
No impact on the benthic habitat.
*Please refer to the FishSource website for further information: www.fishsource.org Web: www.sustainablefish.org Email:[email protected] Certification Fishery name and location Fishing gear used or FIP Category Environmental notes
Lesser sand-eel Bycatch is considered low in this fishery.
Kattegat (2) Bycatch Sandeel is an important prey species for a variety of predators, including fish, European Union Certified marine mammals and seabirds. Fishing of sandeel has been found to affect some surface feeding bird species, especially kittiwake and sandwich tern.
Bottom trawls impact on the benthic habitat. Protected, endangered & threatened (PET) species Midwater trawl
Lesser sand-eel Bycatch is considered low in this fishery. Viking and Bergen Banks (2) Sandeel is an important prey species for a variety of predators, including fish, European Union Gillnets N/A marine mammals and seabirds. Fishing of sandeel has been found to affect some surface feeding bird species, especially kittiwake and sadwich tern. Hook and lines Bottom trawls impact on the benthic habitat. Pots and traps *Please refer to the FishSource website for further information: www.fishsource.org
NOTE: ALL DATA FROM SKRETTING SUSTAINABILITY REPORT
NOTE: SPECIFIC STOCKS CANNOT BE IDENTIFIED FOR SAND EEL AND PERUVIAN ANCHOVY Long lines Bottom trawls Wider food web Seine nets Dredge Dredge Benthic habitat Purse seine General notes
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