At its June 2008 meeting held in London, the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Board of Trustees reconfirmed that it will not be expanding the scope of the MSC’s wild capture certification and labelling program to include aquaculture productions systems.
The Board believes that the MSC should remain focused on its core mission; to use eco-labelling and its wild capture fishery certification program to help transform how the world’s seas and oceans are worked, and to influence the choices people make when buying seafood, so that responsible management is rewarded.
Despite the continued and rapidly growing participation of both fisheries and commercial enterprises around the world in the program, an MSC statement explains that "much still remains to be done"....."It is the Board’s belief that accelerating the delivery of the MSC’s existing program must remain the priority for its work". |
