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Will @MSCecolabel’s new Fisheries Standard deliver a Fin Free MSC? Find out more here:
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It’s time for MSC to finish the job and ensure its Standard is making a difference for threatened sharks on the water.
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THE SOLUTION
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ABOUT
Shark populations globally are on the brink of collapse under the pressure of overfishing with an estimated 63 – 273 million sharks killed each year.
This collapse is driven, in part, by the lucrative global market for shark fins which incentivises the practice of ‘finning’ whereby fins are cut off sharks which are often then discarded and left to die in the water.
It is now well established that a Fins Naturally Attached policy (requiring that fishers must bring sharks to port in one piece, with their fins still attached to their bodies) is the only truly effective means of banning shark finning.
Fins Naturally Attached is a world-best practice in fisheries management and has been adopted by jurisdictions around the world, including 44% of the world’s top shark finning nations, yet it is still not required by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) ecolabel.
This is completely inconsistent with MSC’s statement that “there remains a zero tolerance approach to shark finning in MSC certified fisheries”.
MSC must seize the opportunity provided by its ongoing Fisheries Standard Review to introduce Fins Naturally Attached as a prerequisite for certification in all fisheries interacting with sharks – without exemptions!
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- MSC shark finning project leads: Kate Dewar and Adrian Gutteridge
- MSC Chief Science and Standards Officer: Dr. Rohan Currey
- MSC Head of Fisheries Standards Operation: Tim Davies
- MSC General Standards contact: standards@msc.org
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