Cieri, Matthew and Honneland, Geir and Medley, Paul A.H. and Renton, Susan Singh (2025) An evaluation of the sustainability of global tuna stocks relative to marine stewardship council criteria (Version 12). ISSF Technical Report 2025-08 . International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF).
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The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has established a program whereby a fishery may be certified as being sustainable. The sustainability of a fishery is defined by MSC criteria which are embodied in three Principles: relating to the status of the stock, the ecosystem of which the stock is a member and the fishery management system. Since many of these MSC criteria are comparable for global tuna stocks, the MSC scoring system was used to evaluate twenty-three stocks of tropical and temperate tunas throughout the world and to evaluate the management systems of the Regional Fishery Management Organizations (RFMOs) associated with these stocks. No evaluation has been made here of the fishery specific ecosystem criteria in this report. The principles that were assessed were: • Principle 1 (P1): A fishery must be conducted in a manner that does not lead to over-fishing or depletion of the exploited populations and, for those populations that are depleted, the fishery must be conducted in a manner that demonstrably leads to their recovery, and • Principle 3 (P3): The fishery is subject to an effective management system that respects local, national, and international laws and standards, and incorporates institutional and operational frameworks that require use of the resource to be responsible and sustainable. Each of these Principles is evaluated in relation to Performance Indicators (PIs) within each Principle based on public information available by March 2025
| Item Type: | Books |
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| Keywords: | Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), Tuna, Fisheries Management, Sustainable Fisheries, Overfishing, Fisheries Policy, Governance |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Kokila ICSF Krish |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Sep 2025 10:46 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Sep 2025 10:46 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/22395 |
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