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Steven Adolf is a consultant on sustainable fisheries and ocean policy, a researcher, and a writer.

He was trained as an economist and specialized as a researcher on governance and management policies of sustainable fisheries and oceans. Currently, he works as a senior policy advisor for the NGO Accountability.Fish, an initiative to reform regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs). 

His latest book, “Tuna Wars. Powers around the fish we love to conserve’,’ describes the world history of industrial tuna fisheries from antiquity to the modern economic battles around sustainability in the value chain. He is a consultant on sustainable fishery management, governance in RFMOs, on matters of eco-labeling, on international fishery and environmental ocean policies of the High Seas Treaty (BBNJ), and on global value chains… 

Class of Consumers Sues Industrial Salmon Giant Over Alleged Deceptive Marketing of “Mama Bear” Products’ Sustainability

Despite trading on a cute, pastoral image, Mama Bear salmon is sourced from a company operating at the bleeding edge of destructive industrial salmon farming, according to a federal lawsuit filed today. A Mama Bear purchaser is bringing a putative class action claiming that its marketing violates consumer protection laws. The plaintiff is represented by fair food system advocacy organization FarmSTAND and the law firms Pearson Warshaw, LLP and Jennings & Earley PLLC.

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