The Entire US Fisheries Management System Can be Certified as Meeting FAO Ecolabel Guidelines
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by John Sackton - February 1, 2016
US fisheries are generally acknowledged to be among the best managed in the world, meaning that systems are in place to prevent overfishing, and when overfishing is identified due to changes in stock status or environmental conditions, rules are in place to eliminate it
At the height of the controversy a few years ago as to whether Walmart, Sodexo, and other major seafood users could accept Alaska’s fisheries as certified by the RFM program as sustainable if they were not part of the MSC, some stakeholders asked why not certify all the US fisheries as sustainable.
The Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee (MAFAC), an official advisory committee to NOAA, took up this idea, and recommended that NOAA establish a Seafood Certification Framework and Program....
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