1. Peer Reviewer Training Module MSC Principles - Criteria

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Peer Reviewer & TeamMember On-line Training -

Introduction




Peer Reviewer & Team Member

On-Line Training This trainingpackage is designedto:

• Give peer reviewersand teammembers a goodunderstanding of the MSC fisheryassessment

process to enablethem tosuccessfully carryout theirresponsibilities

• Enable peerreviewers and

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Training Content

• MSC Vision & Mission• MSC Principles & Criteria

• Fishery CertificationProcess

– Who is involved? – What is assessed?

– What is theassessmentprocess?

– How is a fisheryscored?

– Fishery scoringexample to try

Optional modules:

• Fishery Harmonisation

• Risk-Based Framework• Enhanced Fisheries





’Our vision is of the world s oceans teeming,with life and seafood supplies safeguarded for this and future generations

MSC Vision

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MSC Mission

Our mission: isto use our ecolabeland fisherycertificationprogramme to

contribute to thehealth of the world’soceans byrecognising andrewarding

sustainable fishingpractices,influencing thechoices people makewhen buying

seafood, andworking with our



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Thesustainabilityof the stock

Ecosystem

Impact

EffectiveManagement

The MSC Standard: Principles and Criteria for Sustainable Fishing



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The Three MSC Principles

• PRINCIPLE 1 A fishery must be

conducted in a

manner that does notlead to over-fishing ordepletion of theexploited populationsand, for those populations that aredepleted, the fisherymust be conducted ina manner that

demonstrably leads





• PRINCIPLE 2: Fishing

operations shouldallow for themaintenance of thestructure,productivity,function and

diversity of theecosystem(including habitatand associateddependent and

ecologically related





• PRINCIPLE 3: The fishery is

subject to aneffective

managementsystem that respectslocal, national andinternational lawsand standards and

incorporatesinstitutional andoperationalframeworks thatrequires the use of the resource to beresponsible and




• The MSC promotes equal access to its certification programme irrespective of the

.scale of the fishing operation

• , , ,The implications of the size scale type

,location and intensity of the fishery the...uniqueness of the resources will be considered in every certification

Equal Access




•The scope of the MSC Principles and Criteria relates to marine fisheries

activities up to but not beyond the point at which the fish are landed.•

•Freshwater fisheries also included

•The MSC Principles and Criteria apply at this stage only to wild capturefisheries (including, but not limited to shellfish, crustaceans andcephalopods).

•Aquaculture not currently included but some types of enhancedfisheries are (see enhanced fisheries section)

•Introduced Species Based Fisheries (ISBFs) may only be consideredin scope if the introduction cannot now be safely reversed and if theintroduction occurred at least 20 years prior to the application for assessment (see MSC website for further details)

•Issues involving allocation of quotas and access to marine resources areconsidered to be beyond the scope of these Principles and Criteria.

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Scope

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Scope of the Principles &Criteria



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Peer Reviewer & TeamMember On-line Training -

IntroductionFor the next step in the

training go to the FisheryCertification Process module
