“The board asked us to inventory which third-party audit schemes are available and what the costs would be,” he said Monday.
In recent years, ASMI has championed the state’s fishery management system as one of the top in the world, eschewing the need to have the sustainability of Alaska’s fisheries certified by third-party programs such as the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) and others.
In 2007, the marketing association developed its own sustainability program, which it briefly called the Alaska Gold Standard. It measures the sustainability of Alaska fisheries against the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) checklist of principles, criteria, and methods for sustainable management of wild-capture fisheries.
However,
