Improver Programme News

June 2022

MarinTrust welcomes the Vung Tau mixed-trawl fishery (Vietnam) onto its Improver Programme.

MarinTrust Improver Programme welcomes the NE Atlantic Blue Whiting fishery onto the MarinTrust Improver Programme (IP).

The North Atlantic Pelagic Advocacy (NAPA) group submitted the application and acts as the FIP coordinator.

MarinTrust provided training to assessors in Vietnam on the MarinTrust Improver Programme (MT IP) application procedures and the MarinTrust Fishery Assessment process in relation to FIPs.

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