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Marine Stewardship Council
Certification: Challenges from North to South
2015
MSC Policy
Ensure the MSC program and benefits are accessible to all sustainable fisheries, regardless of size, scale, type or region
• Level of participation more measured compared to developed countries but progressing
• 8% of certified fisheries • 24 fisheries formally in the
program (certified and in assessment)
• Over 50 in pre-assessments and working on FIPs
Participation in MSC: Asia, Africa, Latin America
• Economic Development • Language • Enforcement • Data deficiency • Cost of certification • Limited certification body capacity • Limited awareness/capacity to
engage in the FIPs or the MSC • High volume of smaller fisheries
Constraints to certification
1. Interpretation and application of MSC Certification requirements to ensure relevance
2. Tools to support fisheries improving to MSC (FIPs)
3. Fishery and commercial outreach and engagement in southern hemisphere
Addressing constraints
• Performance requirements • Risk based framework • Guidance for management
performance indicators in traditional and informally managed fisheries
• Research on data limited methodologies
• Process requirements
• Speed and cost review • Building certifier capacity in the south
(training)
Certification requirements north to the south
• Fishery and commercial engagement • Africa • Latin America • Asia
• MSC Governance representation • Developing world working group
2. Outreach and engagement
• FIP strategy • Partnership with FIP providers • Indirect technical assistance • Support pre-MSc fisheries moving
to certification
• FIP tools • Benchmarking and tracking tool • Technical experts register • Capacity Building Toolkit
3. Fisheries improving to MSC
• Increase in number of certified fisheries over time
• Emerging sustainable seafood markets (>300 consumer facing products)
• 15% of chain of custody certificates
• Environmental and economic benefits
• Wins generate momentum
Making progress -
• Certified -2011 • Partnership
• Government • Industry • NGO
• Benefits • Management controls formalised in
a mandatory Code of Practice • Seabob working group established
by government • First ever full stock assessment • Development of harvest control rules • Government plans to replicate model
in other fisheries
Case study – Suriname seabob fishery
• Awareness in the north > south • Industry and fisheries are one story, consumers are another
• In the MSC continuum supply markets ≠ demand
markets
• Look at where people are allocating resources
The Question of Awareness
• Fisheries need help – FIPs need to be codified
• Given limited resources, how to address awareness in global south and/or developing world
• Is that right?
• Push/Pull of MSC on these issues
Some hard questions
• A consistent method of benchmarking the performance of a Pre-MSC fishery against the MSC’s standard for sustainability
• Tracks the rate and progress of the fishery as it makes improvements needed to become more sustainable
• Dashboard and report to monitor improvements against common benchmark
Benchmarking and tracking tool
Benchmarking and Tracking Tool Expected BMT Index
Benchmarking and Tracking Tool BMT Dashboard
