Sustainable Fishing in RMI
The Marine Stewardship Council* is telling the world about the eight countries that make up the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA), which includes the Marshall Islands. On a post it states: “Covering just over 70 square miles of land, this small island nation could more accurately be called a big ocean state. In their waters, and the waters of the other PNA nations, live more than a quarter of the world’s tuna.”
Representatives of the MSC visited the Marshall Islands in October 2018 to learn more about the PNA tuna fishery, which has been MSC certified since 2012. The video below expands on the importance of fishing to the Marshall Islands … and to the world.
*What is the Marine Stewardship Council
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) is an independent non-profit organization which sets a standard for sustainable fishing. Fisheries that wish to demonstrate they are well-managed and sustainable compared to the science-based MSC standard are assessed by a team of experts who are independent of both the fishery and the MSC. Seafood products can display the blue MSC ecolabel only if that seafood can be traced back through the supply chain to a fishery that has been certified against the MSC standard.[3]
The mission of the MSC is to use its ecolabel, for which the MSC receives royalties for licensing it to products, and fishery certification program to contribute to the health of the world’s oceans by recognizing and rewarding sustainable fishing practices, influencing the choices people make when buying seafood, and working with partners to transform the seafood market to a sustainable basis.[4] Another organisation, the Aquaculture Stewardship Council, promotes and certifies sustainable aquaculture.
Visit their site below:
