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For nearly a decade, The Outlaw Ocean Project has produced reporting about crimes on the watery two-thirds of the planet...
10/14/2026

For nearly a decade, The Outlaw Ocean Project has produced reporting about crimes on the watery two-thirds of the planet. Now, Ian Urbina and his team have come up with a first-of-its-kind tool built for journalists, law enforcement, academics, regulators, and advocates who wish to understand how seafood moves from the water to the consumer, across hundreds of thousands of ships, fishmeal plants, fish farms, and grocers. Drawing from regulatory reports, certification audits, court records, NGO investigations, and published articles, the tool also documents thousands of cases of unethical or unsustainable behavior, then maps those cases onto supply chains to establish their connection to culprits, beneficiaries, and consumers.

In the past, such a tool might have been unwieldy to use, but Bait to Plate deploys a chatbot so users can explore the reporting more freely. They’ve also created user guides on the website and will be hosting online training sessions the first Monday of each month starting in November (sign up at [email protected]).

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As the production of seafood has grown more globalized, its supply chains have stretched longer, and it has become tough...
10/11/2026

As the production of seafood has grown more globalized, its supply chains have stretched longer, and it has become tougher for consumers to know whether the fish they’re purchasing from name brand stores has been harvested sustainably.

As part of a broader investigative project by The Outlaw Ocean Project, Ian Urbina and Johnny Sturgeon look at what this means in Greece, the EU’s top producer of sea bream and sea bass. An industry relying on fish meal and fish oil to feed carnivorous fish like these comes burdened with costs including the loss of artisanal fishing jobs, chronic chemical exposure, and violent protests as countries compete for scarce sources of protein.

The wide-scale extraction of vital West African foodstuffs to feed luxury seafood to wealthy markets falls far short of responsible, sustainable sourcing.

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Aquaculture was meant to relieve pressure on the oceans. By raising fish, fewer would need to be taken from the wild—or ...
10/09/2026

Aquaculture was meant to relieve pressure on the oceans. By raising fish, fewer would need to be taken from the wild—or so the logic went. In practice, the opposite has occurred.

Often touted as sustainable, the industry has a dark secret: Excluding bivalves, most farm-grown seafood is raised on other seafood. More than a fifth of all marine life removed from the oceans is used for non-human consumption, especially feed for fish farms. And demand for farm-raised fish is increasing. More than half of the seafood eaten globally comes from aquaculture, which is a $313-billion industry, the fastest-growing segment of global food production, and often touted by development agencies as the future of sustainable protein.

Congratulations to Ian Urbina and The Outlaw Ocean Project team on this extraordinary exposé. What happens out of sight can no longer be ignored.

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“What’s behind your plate of salmon, sea bream and sea bass?”This is an excellent round-up of this past week’s event in ...
10/04/2026

“What’s behind your plate of salmon, sea bream and sea bass?”

This is an excellent round-up of this past week’s event in Brussels exposing the dangerous consequences of intensive carnivorous aquaculture. Though we couldn’t be there it’s inspiring to read the impassioned words of our many global partners in this work shedding light on this unsustainable sector.

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When we give marine space to intensive fish farming, we are also committing the future of our coastal communities—their ...
10/02/2026

When we give marine space to intensive fish farming, we are also committing the future of our coastal communities—their fisheries, tourism, natural environment, and everyday lives. We are deciding who benefits and who bears the cost. But the sea belongs to everyone. No single industry should have the right to decide its future alone.

A new op-ed in Liberal.gr by Rauch Foundation President Eva Douzinas looks at what and who should be considered before Greece allocates more of its seas to intensive fish farming. https://www.liberal.gr/oikonomia/i-thalassa-den-einai-ypothesi-enos-kladoy

We’d like to acknowledge the enormous effort the CFFA Coalition for Fair Fisheries Arrangements puts into tracking the F...
09/08/2026

We’d like to acknowledge the enormous effort the CFFA Coalition for Fair Fisheries Arrangements puts into tracking the Food and Agriculture Organization. For the most recent session of FAO’s Committee on Fisheries, CFFA has put together a statement calling for attention to the destructive impacts of industrial feedlot aquaculture - in particular its dependence on fishmeal, which diverts fish from human consumption and endangers fishing communities’ livelihoods in West Africa.

You can read the full statement here: https://lnkd.in/e_-YWmSf

Elle Wibisono, Ph.D. is a fisheries scientist, but believes science only matters if it reaches people — and that storyte...
08/13/2026

Elle Wibisono, Ph.D. is a fisheries scientist, but believes science only matters if it reaches people — and that storytelling can carry scientific ideas further than a paper ever could. Elle is the creator of Fishtory, a comics platform using art to convey fisheries science and the latest muralist to contribute to the Outlaw Ocean Mural Project. Her hope is to motivate passersby to ask questions like: Where does our fish actually come from? Watch how her piece for The Outlaw Ocean Mural Project came to life here: https://lnkd.in/g6ZqMJDv

This piece by New York University’s Matthew Hayek underscores the need to protect Maine’s thriving coastlines from the s...
08/05/2026

This piece by New York University’s Matthew Hayek underscores the need to protect Maine’s thriving coastlines from the scourge of large-scale industrial net-pen aquaculture. The concerns he points out are galvanizing citizens and sparking civic engagement.

https://lnkd.in/gaHAPSnR

This weekend, To Vima International, a Wall Street Journal partner, featured a thoughtful and balanced report by Cheryl ...
07/27/2026

This weekend, To Vima International, a Wall Street Journal partner, featured a thoughtful and balanced report by Cheryl Novak and Myrto Polymili on the future of aquaculture in Greece: “Greece Reconsiders the Rules Governing Fish Farming.”

The article highlights the growing recognition of the need for better marine spatial planning, meaningful public participation, stronger environmental oversight, and effective solutions for abandoned fish farms.

We particularly appreciate that it gives voice to municipalities, local communities, scientists, civil society, industry, and government. Open, evidence-based journalism is essential to informed public dialogue and better decision-making.

The Rauch Foundation is grateful to have contributed to this important discussion on the future of Greece’s seas and the role that independent research and analysis can play in supporting informed policy and public debate.

tovima.com Cheryl Novak

Across coastal Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, traditional fisher peoples and fisherwomen federations are using community map...
07/22/2026

Across coastal Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, traditional fisher peoples and fisherwomen federations are using community mapping to put themselves back on the map. For 78 years, official records have ignored the coastal commons that sustain these communities. Now, through highly organized collective action, fisherwomen are tracing their villages, mangroves, wetlands, and fishing grounds.
 
These maps are more than representations of place—they are legal assertions of rights over the coast and ocean, grounded in women’s knowledge and labour.
 
This is a powerful example of how resourcing grassroots data collection builds legal power and challenges state erasure.
 
📖 Explore India’s story by the Global Alliance for the Future of Food: https://lnkd.in/eK5_FcC6
 

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