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The MSC Board of Trustees has approved the Fishery Standard, claiming it as a major achievement for the label. The final text however, has not been released and will not be available until October 31 2022.  This leaves us and [...]

In May, several prominent conservation groups wrote a letter to the MSC STAC & TAB to raise concerns about several weaknesses in the draft fisheries standard presented by the MSC earlier this year. Last week, the same group sent a [...]

Animal Welfare Institute, Defenders of Wildlife and Natural Resources Defence Council, all of which are Make Stewardship Count members, have filed an objection to the MSC recertification of the Gulf of Maine Lobster fishery. The fishery first gained certification in [...]

  Fisch ist Luxus, das Meer in Gefahr (Fish is a luxury, the sea is in danger), Die Presse, June 8 2022.  Streit um MSC-Siegel: Darf man eigentlich noch Fisch essen? (Controversy over the MSC seal: can you still eat [...]

On the Hook has launched an external review of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), on the basis that the MSC is failing to deliver on its vision of ‘an ocean teeming with life’. This recent trajectory change in the campaign [...]

The Association for Professional Observers sent a letter to the MSC and their governance team to highlight several concerns around the ‘glaring omission of protections afforded to the baseline data collectors for your certification programs - the fisheries observers’ and [...]

The MSC released a summary report from the 60-day public review of the draft Standard, as well as revisions to the Evidence Requirements proposals. We are very concerned about the contents of this revised proposal, the release of which came [...]

The information below is from the SharkGuardian web page.  Over the last few months, Shark Guardian investigators have been busy digging out evidence of systematic shark finning taking place in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO). What we dug [...]

Atuna 02 May 2022 World Tuna Day takes place each year on May 2nd, this year the MSC announced that they predict an increase in the volume of MSC tuna sales. For the 2021/2022 period tuna sales are predicted to [...]

 Undercurrent news 27 April 2022 The MSC hosted a sponsored event at the Seafood Expo Global, ‘Seafood Futures Forum’ where their presentation showed the scale of North Atlantic pelagic species’ certification loss. The loss of North Atlantic mackerel and Atlanto-Scndian [...]