Adjudicator Accepts B.C. Groups' Challenge to Alaska 'Sustainable' Fishery
An independent adjudicator has accepted a complaint from three B.C. groups that last week called on the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) to suspend Alaskan salmon as "sustainable."
The official challenge to the MSC, the world's premier seafood certification body, came after SkeenaWild Conservation Trust and Raincoast Conservation Foundation accused Alaskan salmon fishers of intercepting millions of fish bound for home rivers in B.C., Washington and Oregon.
In a letter to the B.C. groups, independent adjudicator Melanie Carter's decision to proceed with the complaint cites a dispute process requiring challengers have a...
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