Over the past decade and a half, “sustainable seafood” has moved from a niche market to one of the driving forces in the seafood industry. It is now an undeniable fact of doing business today.
Though the exact measures and criteria might vary slightly, in general “sustainability” in fisheries has come to mean not overexploiting a stock to the point where it is threatened with collapse, not overly impacting non-target species or the habitat in which target and non-target species live, and having responsive and conservative management measures in place.
