Work together for community-based fisheries: Rather than “bash” the Marine Stewardship Council, it would be better to work with it to help small-scale fishing communities prosper

Sutton, Michael (2009) Work together for community-based fisheries: Rather than “bash” the Marine Stewardship Council, it would be better to work with it to help small-scale fishing communities prosper. Samudra Report (52). pp. 37-38. ISSN 0973 1121

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Abstract

The previous issue of SAMUDRA Report (No. 51, November 2008) contains an article entitled “Certifying the Certifiers” that makes the same argument we have heard for years: that ecolabelling initiatives somehow will disenfranchise smallscale fishermen.The author claims that the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) ecolabel will only “maintain the status quo of industrial fisheries”. Tell that to the hundreds of small-scale fishermen in Mexico and elsewhere who already benefit from certification of their fisheries under the MSC’s programme. For example, the MSC label is helping community-based spiny lobster fishermen from Puerto Abreojos on Mexico’s Baja Peninsula open new markets and get more money for their product.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.SAM0678
Keywords:	Samudra Report, ICSF, Small-scale Fisheries, Fishing Communities, Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), Community Based Management, Certification, Lobster
Subjects:	Right to Resources
Depositing User:	Chitti Babu ICSF
Date Deposited:	08 Oct 2021 07:23
Last Modified:	30 Mar 2022 04:35
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/1275

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