Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission Votes to Leave MSC Program
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by John Sackton February 20, 2015
The Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission, made up of harvester representatives of the state’s dungeness crab fishery, voted today to allow their MSC certification to expire on November 30, 2015, and not go forward with a five year recertification and new assessment.
Hugh Link, Executive Director of the Crab Commission, said “We need to spend our money on our own research priorities, rather than spending research dollars to meet the requirements of the MSC assessment process.”
With a limited amount of funds, the commissioners felt that committing to a new MSC assessment might lead to an open ended research commitment...
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