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As NGOs and industry issue a letter to the MSC asking for urgent action on shark finning, MSC says any organization prosecuted for finning in the last two years will be ineligible for certification... https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2020/02/04/msc-accepts-inconsistency-of-shark-finning-rules-bans-prosecuted-clients/

NGOs demand introduction of FNA at SG 60 at much faster speed than foreseen by the MSC Standard Review: A letter has been signed and sent to the the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) by numerous stakeholders from NGOs, industry and [...]

WWF has formally objected to the first Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification of an Atlantic bluefin tuna fishery, warning that this would provide a dangerous incentive to the market and compromise the long-term recovery of the stock. Despite the good [...]

The Mexican Pacific Shrimp Fishery has announced that it is seeking to enter the MSC certification process. The fishery includes both the Pacific and the Gulf of California in Mexico, the latter location home to the critically endangered vaquita porpoise, [...]

This GPSEA/SBMI report names 13 fishing vessels involved in complaints by 34 Indonesian migrant fishers that suggest forced labour including e.g. deception, withholding wages, excessive overtime, & physical & sexual abuse. 2 of these vessels are MSC certified as part [...]

The conservation status of small cetaceans has significantly worsened since the 1980s, when the baiji was the only species of small cetacean listed as Endangered by IUCN. Now the baiji is almost certainly extinct and 13 other species, subspecies, or [...]

In its press release after the 26th Regular Meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas in Palma di Mallorca in November 2019 the commission claims that improvements for the conservation of threatened sharks in the Atlantic [...]

While other RFMOs have started adopting a FNA policy already ICCAT has failed to do so so far and MSC has neither been pushing for a FNA policy in their certified fisheries https://www.iccat.int/com2019/TRI/PLE_106_2019.pdf 1 2019 POSITION PAPER On the occasion [...]

Der Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) hat einem Verbund aus deutschen, holländischen, dänischen, und schwedischen Fischern eine Zertifizierung fur Nachhaltigkeit erteilt. Und das trotz des Einspruchs der Naturschutzorganisation WWF. Diese kritisierte die Entscheidung in einer Stellungnahme als "Green Washing auf Hoher [...]

ISSF's Position Statement for the WCPFC Commission meeting (Port Moresby, PNG, December 5-11) calls for urgent action on sharks, including a requirement for sharks to be landed with fins naturally attached (still not a requirement for MSC certification), and the [...]