The MSC is partnering with sustainable fisheries across the globe, from large-scale industrial fisheries to small artisanal fisheries, to drive the market for sustainable seafood.
Find information on fisheries in the MSC Programme
Current consultations
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Cornwall sardine fishery
Announcement Comment Draft Report
closes 11 Oct 2026 -
Clearwater Seafoods Eastern Canadian Offshore Clam
Surveillance audit announcement
closes 11 Oct 2026 -
Maruto Suisan rope grown Pacific oyster, Okayama fishery
Surveillance audit announcement
closes 09 Oct 2026 -
Scanfjord Swedish rope grown mussel fishery
Surveillance audit announcement
closes 08 Oct 2026 -
Guyana seabob
Surveillance audit announcement
closes 08 Oct 2026
Recently certified
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Scottish Fisheries Sustainable Accreditation Group (SFSAG) Rockall haddock
11 Sep 2026 -
FISF Faroe Islands demersal
10 Sep 2026 -
Netherlands blue shell mussel (translocation, bottom & cultured) fishery
04 Sep 2026 -
South Africa hake trawl
01 Sep 2026 -
Spencer Gulf king prawn
01 Sep 2026
Recently entered assessment
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General Tuna Western and Central Pacific High Seas Pocket-1 skipjack, yellowfin, and bigeye tuna purse seine fishery
08 Aug 2026 -
Northern Shellfish Limfjord blue mussel
28 Jul 2026 -
Canada 2J3KL northern cod gillnet, longline, handline, and otter trawl
28 Jul 2026 -
Kyung Yang and Namgung Korean longline albacore, yellowfin and bigeye tuna fishery
15 Jul 2026 -
Natal-Brazil Longline Bigeye and Yellowfin Tuna Fishery
02 Jun 2026
Recently entered Improvement Program
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Tawi-Tawi free dive donkey's ear abalone
08 Jul 2026 -
Ecuador South Eastern Pacific swordfish – longline fishery
07 Jul 2026 -
Lake Winnipeg North Basin Walleye & Lake Whitefish Fisheries
22 Dec 2025 -
Peru Jumbo flying squid
18 Nov 2025 -
Vietnam skipjack tuna purse seine
01 Oct 2025