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A new report published online last week criticized two major fisheries certification programs, the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) and the Friend of the Sea (FOS), for certifying stocks of fish that may not be sustainable.
Fisheries biologist Rainer Froese of the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Germany and Alexander Proelss of the University of Trier came to their conclusion after examining 71 MSC-certified stocks and 76 FOS-certified stocks of mackerel, swordfish, tuna, and other species. In total, 31 percent of the supposedly sustainable MSC stocks and 19 percent of FOS stocks are not worthy of the label.
“We’re putting [the certification programs] under a lot of pressure and we hope that will work,” Froese told Nature. “I want to improve them, not to kill ...
