Improver Programme News

The Gulf of Thailand mixed-trawl Fishery Improvement Project (FIP) fishery has been accepted onto the MarinTrust Improver Programme (IP). It is the first FIP accepted onto the IP as part of the multispecies pilot project and is led by the Thailand Sustainable Fisheries Roundtable (TSFR).

MarinTrust organised a workshop to discuss the revised version of the multispecies pilot assessment criteria based on learnings from the Gulf of Thailand Mixed-trawl Fishery and feedback from the peer review process.

IFFO RS met with the new Deputy Director General of the Thailand DoF, Dr. Vicharn Ingsrisawang, and other DoF staff during a trip to Bangkok.

Nicola Clark (Impacts Manager) and Deirdre Hoare (Fisheries Science Manager) from IFFO RS provided training to Certification Body (CB) staff and auditors in Bangkok on the IFFO RS Improver Programme (IFFO RS IP) application procedures and an update on the IFFO RS multispecies fishery pilot projec

IFFO RS is delighted to announce that the Indian Oil Sardine (Goa and Maharashtra) and the Mauritanian small pelagics Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs) have successfully met the criteria for acceptance on to the IFFO RS Improver Programme (IFFO RS IP).

In order to demonstrate continued improvement of IFFO RS accepted FIPs, new applicants have to provide evidence of actions completed after 6-months following final acceptance onto the IFFO RS Improver Programme. This is to ensure appropriate actions have been completed or are in progress.

Following the transition of the Panama small pelagics Fishery Improvement Project (FIP) to the new IFFO RS Improver Programme (IFFO RS IP) application procedures against V2.0 of the IFFO RS standard in April 2019, Procesadora Bayano S.A.

Prior to the SeaWeb conference in Bangkok, Thailand, the MPSG lead by IFFO RS, met to discuss the continued development of the IFFO RS Multispecies Pilot project and share information with representatives from the developing FIPs in the Gulf of Thailand and Vung Tau, Vietnam.