For over 25 years, we’ve worked hard to make sure the oceans are fished sustainably, but we haven’t been doing it alone. Our oceans are healthy and our stomachs are full thanks to fishermen, ocean conservationists, chefs, supermarkets, and everyone with wild, certified, sustainable seafood on their plates.
The best way to understand the impact of the MSC is from those directly involved in the program. Hear from the passionate people taking care of our oceans in the stories below.
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How This Small-Scale Yellowfin Handline Tuna Fishery Catches More with the Future in Mind
Handline fishing is almost exactly what it sounds like: no poles, no nets, just a person and a baited fishing line.
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Sustainable Sardines: Small in Size, Big in Impact
Sardines might be small in size but they pack punch when it comes to health and sustainability.
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From a Fisher's Perspective: Why we Should be Paying Attention to Blue Foods Tiare Boyes
We need to be better neighbors to our marine cousins, and World Ocean Day is a good opportunity to check in to see how we can do better for our planet.
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Prestige Oysters: Sustainable Success After the Storm
The ability to sustainably fish for oysters and many other key species in Galveston Bay was challenged by a major natural disaster: In 2008, Hurricane Ike hit the coastal communities of Texas and Louisiana. To survive, the Halilis—the family at the helm of Prestige’s operations—had to adapt and overcome.
United States
The Long Future of Squid
What it means to be the world's first MSC certified sustainable squid fishery.
Canada
From Collapse to Conservation
The collapse of the Grand Banks cod fishery threatened a centuries-old way of life in Newfoundland and Labrador, but a sustainably-minded seafood company has helped the industry bounce back.
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UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development
The MSC actively supports the UN’s Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development and its drive to increase collection and analysis of ocean data between 2021 and 2030.
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West Coast Groundfish: An American Success Story in the Making
The story of a dedicated fishing family working hard to earn a living while protecting a valuable natural resource.
United States
Alaska pollock fishing: It runs in the family
Sustainable pollock fishing in the icy cold waters of the Bering Sea.
Canada
Fish in a cold climate
How the ice fishers of Waterhen Lake are charting a sustainable future.
Global
Beating bird bycatch
Smarter fishing practices in the Southern Ocean dramatically reduce the number of seabird deaths.
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Back on the menu
How smarter fishing practices, improved management and MSC certification have transformed the fortunes of the Patagonian toothfish
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Fish, camera, action
In 2009, Wild One Tony Fitzsimmons bought his first camera and two months later, he quit his job. Now a professional documentary photographer specialising in life at sea, Tony shares images and insights from his wild experience aboard the CFL Hunter, an MSC-certified toothfish boat in the southern Atlantic.
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The easy way to make a better choice
MasterChef winner Sandra Mastio on living wild in the city and caring where our seafood comes from
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Marine biology at the top of the world
The MSC's James Simpson joined the crew of an Arctic research vessel to investigate the creatures living in the depths of Barents Sea
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Looking good, doing good, feeling good
The world's first certified sustainable pearl fishery (the Australian silver-lipped pearl oyster fishery) is the first of its kind to be certified as sustainable.
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Mysteries of the deep
For the first time, underwater cameras are revealing the mysterious creatures that live in the depths of the seas off West Greenland helping scientists and managers to ensure that they are protected long into the future.
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Suriname: The power of partnerships
How collaboration between the government, NGOs and researchers empowered this tropical shrimp fishery.
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Shuffling for sustainability
The story of South Australia's pipi cockle fishers and their unique technique
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Tuna fishing after the tsunami
How one man's vision brought a sustainable future to Japan's devastated Tōhoku region
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Saving a clam fishery in Vietnam
Community collaboration steers the Ben Tre clam fishery onto a new sustainable course
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Iceland: An Olympic effort in sustainable fishing
The family business catching sustainable cod for the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games
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Looking after Bluey: Australia's blue swimmer crab
Home to the iconic blue swimmer crab, the Peel Harvey Estuary is the first ever commercial and recreational fishery to be MSC certified as sustainable.
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Fishing for a future
How a sustainable hake fishery in South Africa is supporting livelihoods and communities.
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Western Australia: Riding the crest of the wave
How a lobster fishery became a state-wide inspiration for sustainability
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PNA tuna: Small islands, big opportunities
The island nations of the central Pacific don't have much land. But they have an awful lot of ocean - and a precious resource within it.