Fisheries - MSC Fisheries

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

Clearwater Seafoods Eastern Canadian Offshore Clam

Scanfjord Swedish rope grown mussel fishery

Guyana seabob

Dongwon Pacific Ocean Tuna purse seine and longline fishery

General Tuna Western and Central Pacific High Seas Pocket-1 skipjack, yellowfin, and bigeye tuna purse seine fishery

Recently certified

Netherlands blue shell mussel (translocation, bottom & cultured) fishery

South Africa hake trawl

Spencer Gulf king prawn

Doggerbank Seefischerei Greenland Halibut and Redfish demersal trawl fishery

TTKV WCPO skipjack and yellowfin tuna purse seine fishery

Recently entered assessment

General Tuna Western and Central Pacific High Seas Pocket-1 skipjack, yellowfin, and bigeye tuna purse seine fishery

Northern Shellfish Limfjord blue mussel

Canada 2J3KL northern cod gillnet, longline, handline, and otter trawl

Kyung Yang and Namgung Korean longline albacore, yellowfin and bigeye tuna fishery

Natal-Brazil Longline Bigeye and Yellowfin Tuna Fishery

Recently entered Improvement Program

Tawi-Tawi free dive donkey's ear abalone

Ecuador South Eastern Pacific swordfish – longline fishery

Lake Winnipeg North Basin Walleye & Lake Whitefish Fisheries

Peru Jumbo flying squid

Tuna Development Indian Ocean Tropical Tuna fishery