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World Cetacean Alliance The WCA released a statement on the new MSC Standard voicing their deep disappointment with the decision of the MSC to not include the previously proposed requirements around the harassment and killing of marine mammals in MSC-certified [...]

Undercurrent news, October 18 2022 Recent research from On the Hook shows that consumers have high expectations when purchasing seafood with eco-labels 2257 respondents polled 40% of respondents purchase eco-labelled seafood products. Of those, 80% believed an ecolabel to mean [...]

Undercurrent News, October 14. An objection filed by the Coalition for Transparent Tuna Fisheries (CTTF) against the scope extension of the PNA’s pacific tuna fisheries has been successful. The adjudicator upheld the objection on the basis of FAD use and [...]

WWF Germany, October 10 2022 Read the English translation WWF Germany calls out MSC for certifying Baltic Herring, an overfished stock, which will be used in certified animal feed. The organisation raises concern about the use of conditions to ensure [...]

Star advertiser, September 18 2022 The Hawaiian Longline Association has been granted the MSC certification, covering deep-set tuna longline and shallow-set swordfish longline fisheries, and raising concerns around the legitimacy of the label. While the MSC program is meant to [...]

ATuna, September 7 2022 Full paper - Download One of the requirements for gaining MSC certification is that certified fisheries must be harvested at sustainable levels. The MSC, therefore, claims that certified fisheries are expected to be more sustainable than [...]

Footprint,  August 11 2022.  Read the full report The Changing markets foundation recently released a report investigating the use/sale of Antarctic krill in European based retailers and found that almost half of those studied sold supplements containing krill oil. Not only [...]

ATuna, August 9 2022. The MSC is slated to change the requirements around ghost gear, specifically addressing lost FADs and sonar buoys in the revisions set to be released in October. The development of guidelines for best practices around gear [...]

The Hill, August 9 2022. Earlier this year Shark Guardian released their report from an investigation which identified several violations in MSC fisheries, in particular pertaining to bycatch issues and shark finning on board certified vessels. Following the release of [...]

Undercurrent News, 1 August 2022 The Global Tuna Alliance (GTA) is warning The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) that they face having their MSC certification suspended if they fail to address their stock harvest strategies by the end [...]