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Greenpeace says Marine Stewardship Council is Living in Fisheries Fantasyland!

MSC-LogoImagine if you’re sick or injured and your doctor gives you the ‘all clear’ while still developing your treatment plan. You’d get a new doctor, right? Well, the latest tuna fishery recommended for Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification could be given the blue fish tick based on the same faulty logic. There are plans being developed to improve the fishery, but, so far, little evidence of action or results. The certification covers five purse seine vessels currently fishing for skipjack, yellowfin and bigeye tuna in the Indian Ocean,,, Read the rest here 16:04

MSC certifications list hits 200 mark with Canadian crab

Undercurrent News – After being in assessment for a little less than a year, the  Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certificationin the Eastern Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) has received Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification, becoming the 200th fishery with the MSC’s blue stamp of approval. continued