Prince William Sound hatcheries look at straying
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by Peggy Parker - January 13, 2015
Alaska salmon was the first fishery in the nation to come under MSC’s sustainability certification. Today environmental non-governmental organizations (eNGOs) are all about Alaska salmon. They are analyzing the state biologists’ reports, assessing and categorizing degrees of sustainability, creating easy to use, color-coded lists of “good” and “bad” seafood to sell to seafood buyers as part of a “sustainability package”.
About the same time the Alaska Department of Fish and Game released their forecast for 2015 last month, the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) released their report on salmon. “Pacific Seafood: SFP’s Sustainability Overview” gave a failure rating to Prince William Sound’s pink fisheries due to “hatchery issues.”
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