Dee Estuary cockle
Last Updated: 3 May 2012
Number of fisheries: 1
Species
Cockle (cerastoderma edule)
MSC assessment status
The Conformity Assessment Body, Intertek Moody Marine has announced that the Public Comment Draft Report for the Dee Estuary cockle fishery is now available for comment for a period of 30 days. Any stakeholder wishing to comment on the report is invited to contact Andrew Hough no later than 5pm GMT, 2 June 2012.
Stakeholders are advised that they are to provide objective evidence in support of any additional claims or any claimed errors of fact in their response to the Public Comment Draft Report. Any comments made by stakeholders shall be documented and forwarded by the certification body to its certification decision-making entity.
Please refer to the assessment downloads for further information.
Fishery location
Dee Estuary, Wales in FAO statistical area 27, ICES Subdivision VIIa
Fishing method
Hand-gathering
Fishery management
Environment Agency Wales
Commercial market
Cooked product is sold throughout Europe. Some is sold live to European
markets.
Assessment timeline
The assessment process is expected to take 11 months and is scheduled for completion around July 2012. Please see the download section for a detailed assessment timeline.
The target eligibility date for this fishery is the 1 November 2011.
The MSC ecolabel can only be applied to product from certified fisheries. The MSC program does allow, in certain circumstances and within strict traceability requirements, the MSC ecolabel to be applied following certification to product caught before the actual date of certification. The target eligibility date therefore represents the date from which products may become eligible to carry the MSC ecolabel, however they cannot be sold until and if the fishery is certified. The actual eligibility date will be determined if the fishery is certified to the MSC standard.
To find out more about when fish from this fishery may be sold with the MSC ecolabel, please follow this link (http://www.msc.org/get-certified/supply-chain/eligibility-dates).
