Canadian northern shrimp fishery receives MSC certification

The only fishing area in Eastern Canada's offshore northern striped shrimp fishery yet to receive the Marine Stewardship Council's (MSC) nod of approval was certified on March 20.

“This is a highly supervised fishery,”  Bruce Chapman, executive director of the Canadian Association of Prawn Producers, told IntraFish.  “There is less than 2 percent bycatch, so it really is a model of one of the better managed fisheries in Canada.”

There are 13 active vessels operating in the fishery, which produced 6,000 tons in 2010, Chapman said.

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