The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has launched ‘Seafood Matters’, a global blog that will host a diverse array of authoritative voices on sustainable seafood topics.
It will also explain MSC standards and principles, provide a wide range of perspectives on the urgent issues related to fishing, explore species and offer photoessays from MSC certified fisheries.
“We work in partnership to create models for intelligent stewardship,” wrote Rebecca Fordham, MSC global communications director, in her first blog article.
“We work to inspire change and create a market pull among consumers and suppliers – an appreciation of the economic and environmental value of sustainably sourced fish has the best chance of a transformative impact on the world’s oceans,” Fordham said.
World Ocean Summit
Rebecca’s post also comes just ahead of February 2014′s Economist World Ocean Summit in San Francisco, where pressing issues of governance and sustainability will be the focus.
“The challenges of creating and executing these approaches are enormous,” the agenda points out, “requiring political consensus and commitment, clear legal mandates, cutting-edge science, and an engaged and inclusive civil society where all stakeholders are consulted and share ownership of the process.”