Last Updated: 5th August 2008

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Fishery species

Sardine (Sardinella longiceps)

MSC assessment status

The certification body, Moody Marine has announced the release of the final Performance Indicators and Scoring Guideposts (PI&SGs) that will be used to evaluate the Indian oil sardine fishery against the MSC Principles and Criteria.

The certification body, Moody Marine, has announced that the Indian Oil Sardine fishery is now entering the information gathering phase of the assessment. The primary objective of this stage is to collect information on the fishery and in particular to speak to representatives of the fishery, fishery management bodies and other stakeholders of the fishery. Meetings will be carried out over the period 9th -17th August 2008 in Kerala, India.

Any stakeholder with information on this fishery that should be considered in the assessment, or who wishes to meet with Moody Marine, should contact Dr Jim Andrews, as soon as possible.

The assessment will evaluate the fishery for compliance with the MSC’s Standard for well-managed and sustainable fisheries through the point of the first draft of the assessment report.

The assessment will use newly developed methodological guidance based on a precautionary risk assessment approach, to compensate for lack of information. The MSC will use this report and reports from other assessments of small scale and data deficient fisheries in this project to evaluate the new approach and to inform a decision on future adoption of the guidance as a component of the MSC’s assessment process.

Please see the assessment download section for the stakeholder notification and assessment schedule.

Fishery information

 
The proposed unit of certification is based on a fleet of small (<10m), beach launched vessels based in the Pallithottam-Thankassery area of the Kerala coastal area in India.

The assessment is looking at the gill and seine net component of the fishery. Approximately 400 vessels operate from a 4km stretch of coast, landing an average of 10,000 tonnes of sardines per year.