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The draft assessment report is now available for commenting. Stakeholders who want to submit comments should contact SCS Global service no later than 5pm GMT, 25 May 2020. WPSTA Western and Central Pacific skipjack and yellowfin free-school purse seine assessment documents. The [...]

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, no IOTC observers will be deployed on fishing vessels. However, this will not prevent the continuation of fishing operations and at-sea transshipment activities under the established structure of the ROP. On 31 March the fishing [...]

A sharp decline in biomass linked to climate change prompted the suspension of the certificate. https://www.intrafish.com/fisheries/marine-stewardship-council-certificate-pulled-from-pacific-cod-fishery/2-1-769081

The suspension of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certificate on northeast Atlantic mackerel could damage public perception of the species, warned Tesco’s responsible sourcing director Giles Bolton. Read also With mackerel already gone, Atlantic herring faces MSC certificate loss .Mackerel [...]

Norway's electronic auction house for pelagic species, Norges Sildesalgslag, has not seen any impact on prices to the fishermen from either the coronavirus outbreak or the ongoing issues around Atlantic Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certificates thus far, sales director Knut [...]

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 [...]