If we invest in innovative practices, we can transform the lives of local people, and establish responsible, sustainable fishing practices that will help feed the world far into the future by protecting our oceans. With 30% of our ocean fisheries now depleted or over-exploited, the time for innovation and collaboration is now. And Fair Trade Fisheries is ready.

• The collaboration between our US team with experience in fisheries management and aquaculture technology and our Brazilian partners who bring invaluable local knowledge and experience is a powerful one.

• Fish caught with Hand Lines receive a premium price because they can be handled properly while reducing by-catch (dolphins, sea turtles, and other non targeted species). Fair Trade Fisheries ensures that its fishers share in this premium through a profit sharing plan.

• Fair Trade Fisheries has set up a hand-line program for fishers in Northern Brazil to establish sustainable fishing practices by giving them the knowledge, and tools they need to modernize and implement methods which will protect the oceans reef environment.

The collaboration between our US team with experience in fisheries management and aquaculture technology and our Brazilian partners who bring invaluable local knowledge and experience is a powerful one. Together we can accomplish what neither of us could do alone, expand the capacity of local hand-line fishers through green, sustainable practices that preserve the health of the oceans and strengthen the local economy.