Alaska Producers Seeking to Rejoin MSC Offer to Pay 100% of Certification Costs
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by John Sackton - May 8, 2015
Alaska's smaller salmon producers are facing a critical issue, as MSC's failure to address discrimination by the existing Silver Bay Client Group threatens to prevent many Western Alaska and village based small fisheries from selling MSC certified salmon into European markets this year.
At this time the ten companies, including such smaller producers as Kwik'Pak Fisheries LLC from Emmonak, Yukon Gold, and Triad Fisheries, are still not being offered a path to join the existing client group.
At the time of their application over a month ago, the...
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