Proud Partner
A better standard for our planet
At Raw Seafoods, we understand the importance and impact of sustainable fishing. It is imperative to responsibly and sustainably operate while paying respect to the oceans that reward us with such nutritious bounties. We are proud to be a partner of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) and support their cause and impactful actions taken toward the education and guardianship of sustainable fishing practices across our world’s beloved oceans. We encourage you to browse the information below to learn why the MSC is such an important organization within the industry.
About MSC
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) is an international non-profit organization established to address the problem of unsustainable fishing and safeguard seafood supplies for the future. The MSC vision is for the world’s oceans to be teeming with life – today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. Through our certification and ecolabelling program, we’re helping to create a more sustainable seafood market.
The MSC Mission
The MSC mission is to use our ecolabel and fishery certification program to contribute to the health of the world’s oceans by recognizing and rewarding sustainable fishing practices, influencing the choices people make when buying seafood and working with our partners to transform the seafood market to a sustainable basis.
Working with scientists, fisheries, industry experts, and other nonprofits, the MSC’s goal is to improve the way our ocean is fished through the MSC Fisheries Standard and Chain of Custody Standard. The MSC program incentivizes sustainable fishing practices globally.
While companies and organizations around the world have different definitions of sustainable fishing, the MSC definition is widely accepted across borders, among fishery experts, scientists, researchers, governmental bodies, and environmental NGOs.
Sustainable fishing means leaving enough fish in the ocean and protecting habitats and threatened species.
A growing number of consumers are searching for sustainable, ocean-friendly options to help feed their families. A great and simple way to identify sustainably sourced products is to look for the MSC blue fish label. Any product that has the label has been sourced from an MSC certified sustainable fishery.
The sustainability of a fishery can be assessed regardless of its size, geography or the fishing method used. Our Fisheries Standard is a science-based way to measure sustainability. When fisheries are independently assessed to the standard, three main principles are considered:
Sustainable fish stocks
Minimizing
Impact
Effective Management
So when you’re shopping and you see the MSC blue fish label, you know that the item is certified sustainable and meets all the criteria of the MSC definition of sustainable fishing.
Sustainable seafood history
The sustainable seafood movement began in the 1990s with a growing consciousness around the importance of protecting a source of wild food, good jobs, and healthy oceans.
The 1992 collapse of Canada’s Grand Banks cod fishery was a resounding wake-up call and one of the catalysts for the creation of the MSC. Almost overnight, more than 35,000 fishermen and plant workers from over 400 coastal communities lost their jobs when the cod fishery was closed indefinitely.
This highlighted the need for a global collaboration to find a solution to overfishing and prompted the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Unilever – a transnational consumer goods company and the biggest consumer of cod at the time of the collapse – to initiate a project that would result in a scientifically-driven standard to define sustainable fishing, and ultimately establish the MSC.
Founded in 1997, the MSC created the first and still most recognized certification for wild, sustainable seafood. Now, 25 years later, we have seen firsthand the power of positive change. More than 10 million tons of seafood worldwide comes from MSC certified sustainable fisheries.
We are committed to continuing this mission and ensuring that anyone and everyone who loves or relies on seafood and wants to continue enjoying this wild and delicious source of healthy food can do so for years to come.
Sustainability is about the future
The sustainability of a fishery is an ongoing process. After they are MSC certified, fisheries are regularlyreassessed and many are required to make further improvements. Scientific knowledge also improvesall the time and fisheries are encouraged to develop new ways of conserving marine resources forfuture generations.
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