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    <item rdf:about="http://www.msc.org/newsroom/news/ian2019s-awarded-msc-certification-and-adds-ecolabel-to-packaging-of-allergy-friendly-fish-sticks">        <title>Ian’s awarded MSC certification and adds ecolabel to packaging of allergy-friendly fish sticks</title>        <link>http://www.msc.org/newsroom/news/ian2019s-awarded-msc-certification-and-adds-ecolabel-to-packaging-of-allergy-friendly-fish-sticks</link>        <description>Ian’s, a leading producer of all-natural, allergy-friendly convenience foods, has received MSC Chain of Custody certification for its Wheat-Free, Gluten-Free Fish Sticks.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>mvivero</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                <dc:date>2012-01-25T17:27:31Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Item</dc:type>    </item>
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    <item rdf:about="http://www.msc.org/newsroom/news/sustainable-seafood-day-australia-working-together-for-a-future-full-of-fish">        <title>Sustainable Seafood Day Australia - working together for a future full of fish</title>        <link>http://www.msc.org/newsroom/news/sustainable-seafood-day-australia-working-together-for-a-future-full-of-fish</link>        <description>March 16 is the MSC’s Sustainable Seafood Dayin Australia, and is your chance to help celebrate and reward fisheries that have been independently proven to be sustainable against the exacting MSC standard for well managed and sustainable fisheries, and whose products bear the blue MSC ecolabel. </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>bpate</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                <dc:date>2012-01-24T00:35:00Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Item</dc:type>    </item>
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For the following reasons, we do not accept that the ASMI scheme is an equivalent scheme to the MSC program.

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The existing MSC certification runs until October 29, 2012 and any Alaska salmon caught prior to that date may be sold as MSC certified.   

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MSC Chain of Custody mark of seafood sustainability</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>bcutler</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                <dc:date>2012-01-04T19:15:00Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Item</dc:type>    </item>
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    <item rdf:about="http://www.msc.org/newsroom/news/irish-mussel-fishery">        <title>Irish Mussel fisheries enter MSC assessment</title>        <link>http://www.msc.org/newsroom/news/irish-mussel-fishery</link>        <description>Blue mussel fisheries representing the entire bottom grown mussel landings of Ireland have today entered the Marine Stewardship Council certification process</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>sclement</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                <dc:date>2012-01-04T10:25:00Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Item</dc:type>    </item>
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