Seafood Results

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Bycatch: Fishers use hand tools such as rakes, shovels, and picks to capture clams in shallow waters and mudflats. These fishing methods allow fishers to be highly selective about their catch, making bycatch minimal, and unwanted species are returned to the water alive.

Abundance: Formal stock assessments do not exists for this species, and it's unknown if overfishing is occurring.

Management: Measures are in place to prevent overfishing, but their effectiveness is unknown.

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Bycatch: Harvest method allows fishers to be highly selective, returning undersized clams or any potential bycatch to the water alive.

Management: Highly effective utilizings best available information to inform decision making and encorporating high amounts of stakeholder inclusion in the management process.

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Abundance: Stock status unknown. However, it is unlikely fishery severely impacting populations.

Bycatch: Harvest method is selective and incurs minimal to no bycatch.

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• Hand Implements

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Abundance: Stock status unknown. However, it is unlikely fishery severely impacting populations.

Bycatch: Harvest method is selective and incurs minimal to no bycatch.

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• Hand Implements

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This seafood product is currently under re-assessment as the previous assessment report has reached the end of its life cycle. This product continues to be Ocean Wise recommended during this time.

Abundance: Though there is some uncertainty over stock status this species overfishing is not occurring.

Habitat: Geoduck is generally harvested with hand-held water jets (stingers), which are thought to cause minimal damage to impacted areas, especially because geoducks inhabit sandy, dynamic areas sea floor.

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• Diving

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Abundance: Stock status unknown, however, it is unlikely fishery severely impacting populations.

Bycatch: Harvest method is selective and incurs minimal to zero bycatch. In addition, incidental catch can often be returned alive.

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• Hand Implements

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Abundance: Stock status unknown, however, it is unlikely fishery severely impacting populations.

Bycatch: Harvest method is selective and incurs minimal to zero bycatch. In addition, incidental catch can often be returned alive.

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• Hand Implements

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Abundance: Some data is available to inform an understanding but stock status, but overall status is unknown, however, it is unlikely fishery severely impacting populations.

Bycatch: Harvest method is selective and incurs minimal to zero bycatch. In addition, incidental catch can often be returned alive.

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• Hand Implements

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Abundance: Stock status unknown, however, it is unlikely fishery severely impacting populations.

Bycatch: Harvest method is selective and incurs minimal to zero bycatch. In addition, incidental catch can often be returned alive.

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• Hand Implements

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Bycatch: Fishers use hand tools such as rakes, shovels, and picks to capture clams in shallow waters and mudflats. These fishing methods allow fishers to be highly selective about their catch, making bycatch minimal, and unwanted species are returned to the water alive.

Abundance: Formal stock assessments do not exists for this species, and it's unknown if overfishing is occurring.

Management: Measures are in place to prevent overfishing, but their effectiveness is unknown.

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• Hand Implements

Summary

Bycatch: Fishers use hand tools such as rakes, shovels, and picks to capture clams in shallow waters and mudflats. These fishing methods allow fishers to be highly selective about their catch, making bycatch minimal, and unwanted species are returned to the water alive.

Abundance: Formal stock assessments do not exists for this species, and it's unknown if overfishing is occurring.

Management: Measures are in place to prevent overfishing, but their effectiveness is unknown.

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• Hand Implements

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Abundance: Stock has not been formally assessed, but there are no indications that overfishing is occurring.

Bycatch: Harvest method allows fishers to be highly selective, returning undersized clams or any potential bycatch to the water alive.

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• Hand Implements

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Bycatch: Fishers use hand tools such as rakes, shovels, and picks to capture clams in shallow waters and mudflats. These fishing methods allow fishers to be highly selective about their catch, making bycatch minimal, and unwanted species are returned to the water alive.

Abundance: Assessments are regularly conducted and utilize information on commercial catches, fishing effort, catch rates, and size structure of clams to evaluate status of populations. However, some data regarding fishing effort and catch rates are somewhat uncertain.

Management: Measures are in place to prevent overfishing and enforcement is highly effective.

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• Hand Implements

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• Bottom Culture

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Bycatch: Fishers use hand tools such as rakes, shovels, and picks to capture clams in shallow waters and mudflats. These fishing methods allow fishers to be highly selective about their catch, making bycatch minimal, and unwanted species are returned to the water alive.

Abundance: Formal stock assessments do not exists for this species, and it's unknown if overfishing is occurring.

Management: Measures are in place to prevent overfishing and enforcement is highly effective.

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• Hand Implements

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Bycatch: Fishers use hand tools such as rakes, shovels, and picks to capture clams in shallow waters and mudflats. These fishing methods allow fishers to be highly selective about their catch, making bycatch minimal, and unwanted species are returned to the water alive.

Abundance: Formal stock assessments do not exists for this species, and it's unknown if overfishing is occurring.

Management: Measures are in place to prevent overfishing and enforcement is highly effective.

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• Hand Implements

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Abundance: Stock has not been formally assessed, but there are no indications that overfishing is occurring.

Bycatch: Harvest method allows fishers to be highly selective, returning undersized clams or any potential bycatch to the water alive.

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• Hand Implements

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Abundance: Species is not overfished but has low vulnerability to fishing pressure.

Bycatch: Harvest method allows fishers to be highly selective, returning undersized clams or any potential bycatch to the water alive.

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• Hand Implements

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Abundance: Species is not overfished but has low vulnerability to fishing pressure.

Bycatch: Harvest method allows fishers to be highly selective, returning undersized clams or any potential bycatch to the water alive.

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• Hand Implements

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Effluent: Farmed clams are not provided nutrient fertilization. Effluent may be released from the hatchery or nursery phases, but this is not considered to have any negative effects on the environment, and filter-feeding of clams during grow-out is often cited as improving water quality and/or nutrient cycling in the vicinity near farms. In isolated cases, anti-predator netting or other plastics may be unintentionally released from the farm, but this is not typical, particularly in regions that dominate clam production globally.

Habitat: Farmed clam grow-out operations are primarily located in intertidal or shallow subtidal environments of estuaries, coastal lagoons and bays, all of which are generally considered high- value environments. However, the impact of farmed clam operations on habitat is considered to be minimal, with the main concerns stemming from bio-deposition and harvest.

Feed: Clam farming does not require external feed. Clams obtain nutrients by filtering water, which also serves to improve water quality and/or nutrient cycling in the vicinity near farms.

Disease: Diseases in farmed clams can occur at every stage of production, from the hatchery to grow- out. Farmed clam grow-out systems are open to the natural environment and there is the possibility of disease exchange between wild and farmed animals. However, biosecurity measures have been put in place from the individual farm level to the intergovernmental and international levels, which reduce the risk of parasite and pathogen infection.

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• Bottom Culture

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Effluent: Farmed clams are not provided nutrient fertilization. Effluent may be released from the hatchery or nursery phases, but this is not considered to have any negative effects on the environment, and filter-feeding of clams during grow-out is often cited as improving water quality and/or nutrient cycling in the vicinity near farms. In isolated cases, anti-predator netting or other plastics may be unintentionally released from the farm, but this is not typical, particularly in regions that dominate clam production globally.

Habitat: Farmed clam grow-out operations are primarily located in intertidal or shallow subtidal environments of estuaries, coastal lagoons and bays, all of which are generally considered high- value environments. However, the impact of farmed clam operations on habitat is considered to be minimal, with the main concerns stemming from bio-deposition and harvest.

Feed: Clam farming does not require external feed. Clams obtain nutrients by filtering water, which also serves to improve water quality and/or nutrient cycling in the vicinity near farms.

Disease: Diseases in farmed clams can occur at every stage of production, from the hatchery to grow- out. Farmed clam grow-out systems are open to the natural environment and there is the possibility of disease exchange between wild and farmed animals. However, biosecurity measures have been put in place from the individual farm level to the intergovernmental and international levels, which reduce the risk of parasite and pathogen infection.

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• Bottom Culture

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• Off-Bottom Culture

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• Dredges (Vessel Towed)

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Rationale: Ocean Wise recommends some, but not all Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) Certified Aquaculture. Click to learn more about how ASC Standards for Aquaculture were benchmarked to Ocean Wise.

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• All Production Methods

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Rationale: Ocean Wise recommends some, but not all Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) Certified Aquaculture. Click to learn more about how ASC Standards for Aquaculture were benchmarked to Ocean Wise.

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Rationale: Ocean Wise recommends some, but not all Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) Certified Aquaculture. Click to learn more about how ASC Standards for Aquaculture were benchmarked to Ocean Wise.

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• Dredges (Vessel Towed)

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Rationale: Ocean Wise recommends some, but not all Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) Certified Aquaculture. Click to learn more about how ASC Standards for Aquaculture were benchmarked to Ocean Wise.

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• All Production Methods

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• Dredges (Mechanized or Harvesting Machines)

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• Dredges (Mechanized or Harvesting Machines)

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• Dredges (Vessel Towed)

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• Dredges (Vessel Towed)

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• Miscellaneous Gear

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• Dredges (Vessel Towed)

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Rationale: Ocean Wise recommends Canada Organic Certified Shellfish Aquaculture. Click to learn more about how Canadian Organic Standards for shellfish Aquaculture were benchmarked to Ocean Wise.

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Rationale: Ocean Wise recommends Canada Organic Certified Shellfish Aquaculture. Click to learn more about how Canadian Organic Standards for shellfish Aquaculture were benchmarked to Ocean Wise.

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• All Production Methods

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Rationale: Ocean Wise recommends Canada Organic Certified Shellfish Aquaculture. Click to learn more about how Canadian Organic Standards for shellfish Aquaculture were benchmarked to Ocean Wise.

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• All Production Methods

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Rationale: Ocean Wise recommends Canada Organic Certified Shellfish Aquaculture. Click to learn more about how Canadian Organic Standards for shellfish Aquaculture were benchmarked to Ocean Wise.

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• All Production Methods

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Rationale: Ocean Wise recommends Canada Organic Certified Shellfish Aquaculture. Click to learn more about how Canadian Organic Standards for shellfish Aquaculture were benchmarked to Ocean Wise.

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• All Production Methods

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• Dredges