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Fisheries and seafood businesses can get certified to the MSC standards to show that they support sustainable fishing and gain access to the growing market. Find out how.

Use the MSC ecolabel

The blue MSC ecolabel communicates sustainability to your customers. Get a license to display it on your seafood products or marketing materials.

Find a certifier

Find certifiers around the world accredited to carry out assessments against the MSC standards for fisheries or Chain of Custody.

Become a certifier

If you are a certifier find out how to get independently accredited to carry out assessments against the MSC standards.

Fisheries: Get certified!

Reap the benefits of proving that your fishery is sustainable and well managed.

Supply chain businesses: Get certified!

Show commitment to sustainable seafood to your customers - get certified and use the MSC ecolabel.

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Fishers’ stories – Net Benefits 2009

26 April 2010

Does MSC certification make a difference? 10 years on, see what MSC certified sustainable fisheries have to say in our 10th anniversary report, Net Benefits.

Get certified! Restaurants

05 September 2008

Show customers how seriously you take sustainable seafood sourcing by using the MSC ecolabel on menus in your restaurant.

Eligible fisheries

19 March 2009

Find out which fisheries are eligible to be assessed against the MSC environmental standard for sustainable fishing.

Latest news

MSC on the Menu at Ramsgate

20 August 2010

Ramsgate fishermen have signed up to join suppliers and restaurateurs at the ‘MSC on the Menu’ event on 1st September.

MSC responds to Pew

18 August 2010

While the MSC welcomes stakeholder input the Pew EG email campaign provided its members with limited information about the MSC assessment process. Below are details as to how to further engage during the several stakeholder consultation opportunities within the assessment process. The swordfish and tuna assessment has just begun and it is premature to reach any conclusion about any aspect of the fishery assessment against the MSC standard, including the impact on sea turtles from longline fishing and effects from the Gulf oil spill.

Cornwall packs in another MSC certificate with sustainable sardines

13 August 2010

The Cornish sardine fishery has been certified as a sustainable and well-managed fishery

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