The International Coalition of Fisheries Associations (ICFA) has unveiled a Seafood Nutrition Toolkit at the Seafood Expo Global currently taking place in Barcelona, Spain.
The purpose of this toolkit is to enable its members, mainly national associations of the fish and seafood industry from the world’s leading fishing nations, to communicate the nutritional benefits of seafood consumption on a global scale.
The group dedicated to promoting effective communication within the seafood sector, Global Seafood Communicators (GSC), has collaborated with ICFA to create and deliver unified messaging to a wide range of audiences.
"This new resource will be a cornerstone of the work ICFA and GSC do and will support us as we continue to move forward and grow. With resources like the toolkit, we will be able to not only discuss the topics most important to seafood internally but communicate them publicly," ICFA Chair Ivan López Van der Veen noted.
Additionally, GSC Chair Fiona MacMillan, of Seafood New Zealand, said: "The toolkit will not only identify existing evidence and known benefits of seafood consumption but will contain messaging to help ICFA reach a common goal: raise public awareness of the benefits of eating seafood using correct, science-based messaging."
The ICFA was formed in 1988 to provide decision makers a unified voice on global fish and seafood issues, and currently includes 24 seafood industry association members from Europe, North America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, and Latin America.
In December 2024, Iván López van der Veen of Spain was unanimously elected as the new president of the Coalition, succeeding Javier Garat, who is also Secretary General of the Confederación Española de Pesca (CEPESCA) and president of Europêche.
