Comment/Editorial: Going green about the gills

ICSF, International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (1996) Comment/Editorial: Going green about the gills. Samudra Report (15). p. 1. ISSN 0973 1121

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Abstract

It takes two hands to clap and when these belong to giants like the multinational Unilever and the high-profile World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the result could be a thunderclap. Precisely such a blast can be expected from the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) planned by these two organizations. Unilever, with global sales of US$ 900 million in fish products and a 20 per cent share of the European and us frozen-fish market, is teaming up with an environmental NGO to ‘ensure the long-term viability of global fish populations and the health of the marine ecosystems on which they depend." The move has received great media attention in the UK. A columnist in The Times said that ‘These last years of the century are giving birth to a new alliance: a type of ruthless, unsentimental, large-scale action which entirely bypasses governments. After years of mutual suspicion and tension, the environmentalists and the industrialists, the sandals and the suits, are working things out together..." The Daily Telegraph hailed the MSC as “one of the most significant initiatives to halt fish stocks decline since Iceland went to war over cod in the 1970s.”

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.SAM0183
Keywords:	Samudra Report, ICSF, Marine Stewardship Council, Trade, Fish Catch, Ecolabelling, Fisheries Management, Comment/Editorial
Subjects:	Right to Resources
Depositing User:	Varsha V icsf
Date Deposited:	22 Sep 2021 16:45
Last Modified:	30 Mar 2022 16:32
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/540

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