February 23, 2018 — Independent certification body Acoura Marine has determined that Japan’s “scallop hanging and seabed enhanced fisheries” meet the Marine Stewardship Council standard, and should be certified.

The process is now open to a 15 working day period during which a previously involved stakeholder may lodge a notice of objection to this determination.

In 2016 the fishery produced 279,823 metric tons of scallops. The species is naturally distributed in coastal, sub-Arctic areas of the eastern Pacific including the Japan Sea and southern Sea of Okhotsk, around Sakhalin Island, Hokkaido, and northern Honshu.

Japanese scallop grow relatively fast, and may reach 20 centimeters shell height and weigh 1 kilogram at ten years of age.

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