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.
Side orders
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
Two Pacific cod fisheries gain MSC certification
29 January 2010
Two Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) fisheries, one located in the Gulf of Alaska and the other in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, have earned MSC certification having been independently assessed and found to be sustainable and well managed.
Dutch blue shell suspended culture mussel producers seek MSC certification
26 January 2010
The Dutch Association of Suspended Mussel Culture Farmers has entered full assessment for the internationally recognized MSC standard for sustainable fishing
Argentine hoki fishery seeks MSC certification
25 January 2010
The hoki trawl fishery operation in the Argentine Economic Exclusive Zone and adjacent waters entered full assessment to be considered for MSC certification.
