"Sustainable Fishing" Certification Too Lenient and Discretionary, Study Finds
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April 10, 2013 -- The certification of seafood as “sustainable” by the nonprofit Marine Stewardship Council is too lenient and discretionary, a study by a consortium of researchers has found.
“When consumers want sustainable fish there are two options to meet the demand: fisheries can become more sustainable or the definition of sustainable can be watered down to be practically meaningless—with MSC seafood, the definition has been repeatedly watered down,” said Jennifer Jacquet, a clinical assistant professor in New York University’s Environmental Studies Program and one of 11 authors of the study, which appears in the journal Biological Conservation.
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Study: MSC Standards Are 'Too Lenient'
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NEW YORK -- April 12, 2013 -- The Marine Stewardship Council’s sustainability standards for fisheries are “too lenient and discretionary,” according to a study published in the journal Biological Conservation.
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MSC praises Monterey Bay Aquarium's move to upgrade sustainable status of toothfish fisheries
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April 12, 2013 -- SEAFOOD.COM NEWS [seafoodnews.com] -- The Marine Stewardship Council has praised the Monterey Bay Aquarium's independent review of toothfish fisheries that resulted in MSC certified fisheries getting upgraded to "Best Choice" or "Good Alternative" under the Aquarium's Seafood Watch program.
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CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION: For Cod's Sake
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April 11, 2013 -- The following is an excerpt from the Conservation
Law Foundation's summary and video, "For Cod's Sake",
originally published on April 3:
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Time to promote toothfish: Monterey Bay Aquarium certifies 60% of global supply
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SEAFOOD.COM NEWS [Seafoodnews.com] -- April 9, 2013 -- Toothfish was one of the most highly sited problem fisheries in the 1990's, leading many chefs and retailers to avoid selling toothfish or Chilean sea bass entirely. But like so many other sustainability problems in global fisheries, the situation with toothfish has dramatically changed. Today, the Monterey Bay Aquarium announced that they have approved over 60% of the global supply of toothfish as either "best choice", their highest rating, or "good alternative." This has come about largely through the exemplary work of COLTO- the coalition of legal toothfish operators, which represents about 80% of global production.
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