The West Greenland offshore halibut fishery became the first Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified Greenland halibut fishery in the world.
The fishery, which covers the Baffin Bay and Davis Strait, makes up for half the total allowable catch (TAC) of Greenland halibut, a coldwater Arctic flatfish caught in the Atlantic and the Pacific that is the most valuable flatfish species in the country. It can grow up to 1.2 meters in length.
"Greenland halibut is an important fishery for the Greenlandic economy,” said Lisbeth Due Shoeneman-Paul, corporate sustainability manager at Royal Greenland and chair of Sustainable Fisheries Greenland.
“We have received more numbers of queries from our customers about the sustainability certification on our Greenland halibut fishery.”
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