MSC Called to Parliament to Answer Questions About its PNA Tuna Recertification
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by John Sackton December 7, 2017
The MSC was called to a parliamentary meeting with the UK Fisheries minister and nine Members of Parliament who are supporting the UK ‘On the Hook’ Campaign which has opened up a significant challenge to the MSC’s certification of sustainable tuna.
The On the Hook Group was started by celebrity British Chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall who led the hugely popular ‘fish fight’ campaign. It asks the simple question of how the MSC can assure UK consumers that its label stands for sustainability, when they allow the very same vessels and companies that catch free swimming tuna to also catch FAD tuna, not approved by the MSC, on the same trip.
The group and its parliamentary supporters object to the MSC allowing of 'Compartmentalization' in order to recertify the PNA tuna fishery. They say it is hypocritical to allow a portion of the fishery to use unsustainable practices,..
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