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Saving toothfish and the Ross Sea

Saturday, May 8. 2010
Critical Habitat / Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)


As an active member of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC), WDCS is celebrating because ASOC has successfully raised an objection to the MSC certification of the Ross Sea toothfish fishery. An independent adjudicator has upheld our objection and remanded the decision to the certifiers for reconsideration and rescoring. WDCS and ASOC were outspoken in contending that giving a 'green label' to the exploitation of an unsustainable fishery for the Antarctic toothfish in an area proposed as a highly protected marine reserve was 'completely inappropriate'.

The ASOC press release is below, and the full decision can be read through the links on the ASOC or Cetacean Habitat websites.


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Posted by Erich Hoyt in Critical Habitat / Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) at 10:11 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
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