IntraFish spoke with National Fisheries Institute (NFI) Crab Council Chair Brendan Sweeny, who is the vice president of operations for Handy Seafood, about sustainability enforcement and raising crab consumption in the US.

What was the council’s biggest success in 2016?

There has been a major focus on fostering more communication between the various FIPs [fisheries improvement projects] in each country, and so coming off a successful meeting in late 2015, we arranged a second Blue Swimming Crab FIP conference in Bangkok in July

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