June 2, 2020 — In a hearing taking place 1 and 2 June, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is questioning the merits of the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) certification of the first Atlantic bluefin tuna fishery, citing a “questionable evaluation process that has repeatedly ignored the fragile status of the stock.”
According to WWF, MSC’s current certification of the bluefin tuna fishery has dismissed “the best available science and therefore produced a evaluation of the fishery that does not reflect the reality at sea.”