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SeaChoice, January 20 2022. This piece outlines how Make Stewardship Count Came to be after years of frustrating engagement in MSC assessments, and their 2017 report What’s behind the label?, which showed that the MSC was no longer living up [...]

Seafood Source July 28, 2021 (more coverage of the story can be found at the end) In July 2021, the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) announced that 22 certified tuna fisheries and 5 fisheries being assessed in the Western Central Pacific [...]

Updated 4 October 2021 Dagbladet —one of Norway’s leading newspapers— recently published an article entitled Oslo Fjord collapse: full chaos.  According to the article, Oslo Fjord has become so empty of fish species that only the shrimp fishery can be [...]

Forget et al, 1 September 2021 Mitigating bycatch is a key to sustainable fisheries, and to assess the impact of a fishery on bycatch species, is a necessary first step. In Tuna purse seine fisheries, pelagic sharks account for about [...]

MSC, 26 July 2021 The MSC certification for 22 Western Central Pacific Ocean tuna fisheries could be suspended in June 2023 if measures to support sustainability do not progress. The Western Central Pacific Fisheries Committee (WCPFC), composed of 26 member [...]

WWF Hong Kong, 13 July 2021 This July 14th, on ‘Shark Awareness Day’, WWF-Hong Kong released an updated version of their Seafood Guide which classifies seafood items as “Green – Recommended”, “Yellow – Think Twice” or “Red – Avoid” to [...]

Australian Marine Conservation Society, June 29 2021 By now, you will all be aware of the successful orange roughy MSC objection by AMCS and WWF. Unfortunately, the risk for the species and their habitat continue to be put at risk. [...]

Seafood Source, May 31 2021 Improvements to the ETP species section of the standard is a key focus of ours, and it is part of the current MSC Fishery Standard review. However, we have not received any updates on this [...]

Seafood Source, May 14 2021 See also this media release from Australian Marine Conservation Society - Orange roughy ruling victory for sustainable fisheries and for ocean loving Australian, January 7 2021 According to this article, the recent win by WWF [...]

May 12 2021 This UK Government Policy Paper on its Action Plan for Animal Welfare addresses shark finning – a topic we have worked on for years. The paper announces the plan to bring in legislation to ban the import [...]