July 21, 2021 — Several prominent U.S squid producers and suppliers have joined with European, Canadian and Australian counterparts in creating a new international working group to fight illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing through their global supply chains.
Working with technical support from the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership, the new IUU working group includes:
- Aqua Star, Seattle
- Beaver Street Fisheries, Jacksonville, Fla.
- Crocker & Winsor Seafoods, Needham, Mass.
- Lund’s Fisheries, Cape May, N.J.
- Netuno, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
- Panapesca, Pembroke, Mass.
- Sun Coast Calamari, Oxnard, Calif.
- The Town Dock, Narragansett, R.I.
The Squid IUU Prevention Working Group was formed by members of the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership’s Global Squid Supply Chain Roundtable (Global Squid SR), which brings together squid producers and suppliers to work together in a pre-competitive environment to drive improvement efforts in squid fisheries practices, management and policy.
“As importers and distributors of processed squid products, the Working Group members are united in their desire to clearly prohibit IUU-sourced squid product and labor and human rights abuses in their supply chains,” according to a statement from the partnership, an international marine conservation group founded in 2006.