Silver Bay, Copper River Client Group Refuse Bid of Other Alaska Processors to Join MSC
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by John Sackton May 14, 2015
One day before the official start of this years Alaskan salmon season, Rob Zuanich, the managing partner for Silver Bay, and Executive Director of the Alaska Salmon Processors Assoc., refused the request of other Alaska salmon processors to join the MSC client group.
Most importantly, his seven page letter did not contain one word about cost sharing. Yet cost sharing is the only basis on which the MSC recognizes the right of a client group to restrict new members who have paid for the management and oversight of a certified fishery, but are not currently members of a client group.
In this case, the processors seeking to join the client group offered to pay 100% of the costs going back ...
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