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6 April: postponements of the MSC site visit for the Northeastern Tropical Pacific Purse Seine yellowfin and skipjack tuna fishery. 14 April: SAI Global, the CAB for the Gulf of St. Lawrence snow crab trap fishery, announced that whilst the certificate for the fishery [...]

On March 5 a roundtable event named “Keeping the North Atlantic Blue Whiting fishery MSC and IFFO RS certified” has been organized. One source feels it could be critical to the question of Marine Stewardship Council certifications across pelagic fish. [...]

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is raising the alarm that "unjustified high scores" may be paving the way for MSC certification of the world's first Bluefin tuna fishery. Certification group Control Union Pesca Ltd., which is conducting the audit of [...]

The WWF has claimed a lack of impartiality on the part of Control Union Pesca, the conformity assessment body (CAB) conducting the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) assessment of an Atlantic bluefin tuna fishery. https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2020/02/27/wwf-claims-lack-of-impartiality-a-concern-in-msc-atlantic-bluefin-tuna-certification-process/

Rome, Italy- A premature MSC certification of Atlantic bluefin tuna would provide dangerous incentives to the market and consumers, warns WWF today. As WWF’s formal objection against the first certification of Atlantic bluefin tuna continues, the Accredited Conformity Assessment Body (CAB) conducting the assessment [...]

ATUNA reports that the German retailer's private label tuna assortment change to MSC certified will occur in March, 2020 . The produce will contain free-school MSC certified skipjack from PNA (Pacifical), which will be offered at entry-level price... The certification of [...]

In its letter MSC has responded to the article from Intrafish that "The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) does not hold $41.8 million in cash reserves. The figure quoted in [the] article amounts to net assets of the MSC Group, not [...]

A premature MSC certification of Atlantic bluefin tuna would provide dangerous incentives to the market and consumers, warns WWF today. http://www.wwfmmi.org/newsroom/latest_news/?uNewsID=360233

The MSC has more than $41.8 millionn (€38.7 million) in cash reserves sitting in its accounts. According to the Nation Council of Non-profits (NCN), less than 25% of the Non-profits it surveys annually has more than 6 months of cash [...]

https://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1163982/MSC-Adopts-On-the-Hook-Campaign-Change-Bans-Compartmentalization-by-Fishing-Practice MSC Adopts On the Hook Campaign Change; Bans Compartmentalization by Fishing Practice. Changes are coming to the Marine Stewardship Council's Fisheries Certification Process in March, pushed for by the On the Hook campaign for more than two years.