If ever there was a disgruntled Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) client, the At-Sea Processors Association (APA) is one.

When the APA, which represents the US Alaska pollock industry, began the process of getting the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands pollock fishery certified, the group was so frustrated that in the middle of its certification it was blasting the MSC's policies as "shifting" and "undefined," and warned that the group's lack of organization could make the MSC "a promising, but failed, experiment."

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