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Developments in progressing India's marine fisheries towards Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification

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Title Developments in progressing India's marine fisheries towards Marine Stewardship
Council (MSC) certification
 
Creator Mohamed, K S
Malayilethu, Vinod
Suseelan, Ranjith
 
Subject Fisheries Management
Marine Fisheries
 
Description Ecolabelling is a market-based tool to promote
the sustainable use of natural resources. Ecolabels
are seals of approval given to products that are
deemed to have fewer impacts on the environment
than functionally or competitively similar products.
The ecolabel itself is a tag or label placed on a
product that certifies that the product was produced
in an environmentally friendly way. The label
provides information at the point of sale that links
the product to the state of the resource and/or its
related management regime. Sitting behind the
label is a certification process. A range of
ecolabelling and certification schemes exists in the
fisheries sector, with each scheme having its own
criteria, assessment processes, levels of
transparency and sponsors. One of the first
scientifically developed ecolabelling schemes, the
Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) was set up by the
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Unilever in 1997,
but has been independent of them for past many
years. The MSC is arguably the most comprehensive
fisheries certification scheme in that it covers a
range of species and deals with all aspects of the
management of a fishery.
 
Publisher ICAR - Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2018
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/13429/1/1_MFIS_235.pdf
Mohamed, K S and Malayilethu, Vinod and Suseelan, Ranjith (2018) Developments in progressing India's marine fisheries towards Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification. Marine Fisheries Information Service; Technical and Extension Series (235). pp. 1-12. ISSN 0254-380 X