date:Aug 24, 2012
tock rebuilding despite weak recruitment.
Nicolas Gutierrez, manager of the MSC monitoring and evaluation programme and lead author, said: We recognise that stock status and harvesting levels are not the only measures of a fisherys sustainability. However, the ability of a fishery to identify and respond to changes in stock status is critical to maintaining the resource at renewable levels. MSC certification requires fisheries to amend their harvesting strategies to rebuild stocks where necessa