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.

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Fishery in Focus: South Australia Lakes and Coorong pipi

Located on the Coorong lagoon, Lake Alexandrina and Lake Albert near Adelaide, and the adjacent coastal waters of the Southern Ocean, Lakes and Coo...

Fishery in Focus: Normandy and Jersey lobster

This cross-border, artisanal fishery includes around 130 small fishing boats catching lobsters using pots. The fishery is spread across three areas...

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Find information on fisheries in the MSC Programme

Fishery in Focus: South Australia Lakes and Coorong pipi

Fishery in Focus: Normandy and Jersey lobster

Current consultations

PNA Western and Central Pacific skipjack and yellowfin, unassociated / non FAD set, tuna purse seine

Maldives pole & line skipjack tuna

Burry Inlet cockles

North Buru and Maluku Fair Trade Fishing Associations, Indonesian Handline Yellowfin Tuna

The Poole Harbour Clam & Cockle Fishery

Recently certified

NZRO Gulf of Riga herring and sprat trawl fishery

Aleutian Islands and Bering Sea Atka mackerel, Pacific Ocean perch, and northern rockfish and Gulf of Alaska Pacific Ocean perch, northern rockfish, and dusky rockfish

Wash Brown Shrimp

Russian and Estonian Lake Peipus perch and pike-perch

Prestige Oysters Texas and Louisiana private oyster fishery

Recently entered assessment

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

Indonesia pole-and-line and handline, skipjack and yellowfin tuna of Western and Central Pacific archipelagic waters

Yalu Estuary Manila Clam Fishery

Mexican Pacific Shrimp Fishery

CFTO Indian Ocean Purse Seine Skipjack fishery