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The Mexican Pacific Shrimp Fishery has announced that it is seeking to enter the MSC certification process. The fishery includes both the Pacific and the Gulf of California in Mexico, the latter location home to the critically endangered vaquita porpoise, [...]

The conservation status of small cetaceans has significantly worsened since the 1980s, when the baiji was the only species of small cetacean listed as Endangered by IUCN. Now the baiji is almost certainly extinct and 13 other species, subspecies, or [...]

In its press release after the 26th Regular Meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas in Palma di Mallorca in November 2019 the commission claims that improvements for the conservation of threatened sharks in the Atlantic [...]

While other RFMOs have started adopting a FNA policy already ICCAT has failed to do so so far and MSC has neither been pushing for a FNA policy in their certified fisheries https://www.iccat.int/com2019/TRI/PLE_106_2019.pdf 1 2019 POSITION PAPER On the occasion [...]

Der Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) hat einem Verbund aus deutschen, holländischen, dänischen, und schwedischen Fischern eine Zertifizierung fur Nachhaltigkeit erteilt. Und das trotz des Einspruchs der Naturschutzorganisation WWF. Diese kritisierte die Entscheidung in einer Stellungnahme als "Green Washing auf Hoher [...]

ISSF's Position Statement for the WCPFC Commission meeting (Port Moresby, PNG, December 5-11) calls for urgent action on sharks, including a requirement for sharks to be landed with fins naturally attached (still not a requirement for MSC certification), and the [...]

The controversial Omega Protein may have succeeded in securing MSC certification last month for the Atlantic menhaden fishery, but it now faces the potential of having its ability to harvest there at least temporarily taken away or reduced. Omega Protein [...]

After suspension of mackerel fisheries in the North East Atlantic in March of this year, now also suspension of certificates for cod in the North Sea has been announced. The suspensions came into force on October 24th 2019 but only [...]

IA agrees in regard to EU landing obligation, that Fishery's clients comment is appropriate to..."place importance on the legal obligations of their respective national management authorities in respect of the landing obligation. I agree. The condition must be seen in [...]

M&S fish buy says "The market choosing to buy or not buy fish from a specific fishery will not improve the state of that fishery". He goes on to note that real change to fisheries needs to come through fisheries [...]