Fisheries - MSC Fisheries

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South Australia Lakes and Coorong pipi

Wash Brown Shrimp

Lake Erie Multi-species Commercial

Australia west coast deep sea crab

Owasebussan Co. Ltd. North Pacific Longline Fishery for Albacore, Yellowfin, & Bigeye Tuna

Recently certified

Pacific hake mid-water trawl

DFPO, DPPO and SPFPO North Sea, Skagerrak and Kattegat sandeel, sprat and Norway pout

Western Australia octopus

Russian Lake Peipus perch and pike-perch

FIUN Barents & Norwegian Seas cod and haddock

Recently entered assessment

U.S. Atlantic summer flounder and black sea bass trawl fishery

Canada Pacific (British Columbia) groundfish trawl option A

Chilean hake (Merluccius gayi) Industrial Trawl Fishery

Dakartuna Atlantic pole and line tuna fishery

Argentine red shrimp (Pleoticus muelleri) offshore bottom trawl fishery in federal waters

Recently entered Improvement Program

North Peru eel (Ophichthus remiger) trap fishery

Lakes & Coorong Fishery - Finfish

Indonesia Indian Ocean tuna and large pelagics longline

Mexican Pacific Brown Shrimp bottom trawl fishery