The MSC is the world's leading certification and ecolabelling program for sustainable seafood. Look for the blue MSC ecolabel when shopping or dining out.
What we do
The MSC runs an exciting and ambitious program, working with partners to transform the world's seafood markets to a sustainable basis.
MSC standards and methodologies
With experts we developed standards for sustainable fishing and seafood traceability. They ensure that MSC-labelled seafood comes from, and can be traced back to, a sustainable fishery.
How we meet best practice
The MSC meets the highest benchmarks for credible certification and ecolabelling programs, including the UN Food and Agriculture Organization guidelines and the ISEAL Code of Good Practice.
Fish for today, fish for tomorrow
Meet the fishers and seafood partners who support the MSC in our short movie.
A global organisation
The MSC has offices around the world. Use our map to find your nearest office.
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How we meet best practice
22 February 2008
The MSC meets the highest benchmarks for credible certification and ecolabelling programs, including the UN Food and Agriculture Organization guidelines and the ISEAL Code of Good Practice.
Working with developing countries
03 April 2008
The MSC’s Developing World Fisheries Programme ensures that developing countries have fair and equal access to MSC certification and global sustainable seafood markets.
Recent news
28 April 2009
Sustained growth of MSC labelled products continues
The estimated retail value of seafood products bearing the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) logo is estimated around 1.4 billion US dollars annually. These numbers, based on extrapolation of half-year figures, confirm a continued trend of steady year-on-year growth at around $0.4 billion.
27 April 2009
M&S’ former Marine Technologist, Andrew Mallison, joins the Marine Stewardship Council
The Marine Stewardship Council is being joined by Andrew Mallison as the Standards and Licensing Director. Andrew spent 12 years as Marine Technologist at M&S, and joins the MSC as head of the teams responsible for the MSC standard for fishery certification and the MSC standard for Chain of Custody (supply chain traceability).
