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Peer Reviewer & Team Member On-line Training Introduction

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Peer Reviewer & Team Member On-Line Training

This training package is designed to: Give peer reviewers and team members a good understanding of the MSC fishery assessment process to enable them to successfully carry out their responsibilities best environmental choice in seafood Enable peer The reviewers and

Training Content
MSC Vision & Mission MSC Principles & Criteria

Fishery Process

Certification

Who is involved? What is assessed? What is the assessment process? How is a fishery scored? Fishery scoring example to try

Optional modules: Fishery Harmonisation Risk-Based Framework The best environmental choice in seafood Enhanced Fisheries

MSC Vision

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su p p l e s sa fe g u a rd e d fo r th i a n d i s fu tu re g e n e ra ti n s o best environmental choice in seafood

Our vision si of i oworlde w o rl teeming a n s O u r viiso n the f th s oceansd s o ce s with life, and seafood supplies safeguarded te e m i g thisth l fe , a ngenerations d n for w i andifuture d se a fo o

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MSC Mission

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Our mission: is to use our ecolabel and fishery certification programme to contribute to the health of the worlds oceans by recognising and rewarding sustainable fishing practices, influencing the choices people make when buying seafood, and working with our best environmental choice in seafood

The MSC Standard: Principles and Criteria for Sustainable Fishing

The sustainability of the stock

Ecosystem Impact

Effective Management

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The Three MSC Principles

PRINCIPLE 1 A fishery must be conducted in a manner that does not lead to over-fishing or depletion of the exploited populations and, for those populations that are depleted, the fishery must be conducted in a manner that demonstrably leads The best environmental choice in seafood

The Three MSC Principles

PRINCIPLE 2: Fishing operations should allow for the maintenance of the structure, productivity, function and diversity of the ecosystem (including habitat and associated dependent and ecologically related The best environmental choice in

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The Three MSC Principles

PRINCIPLE 3: The fishery is subject to an effective management system that respects local, national and international laws and standards and incorporates institutional and operational frameworks that requires the use of the resource to be responsible choice in seafood The best environmentaland

Equal Access
The MSC promotes equal access to its certification programme irrespective of the scale of the fishing operation. The implications of the size, scale, type, location and intensity of the fishery, the uniqueness of the resources ... will be considered in every certification

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Scope
The scope of the MSC Principles and Criteria relates to marine fisheries activities up to but not beyond the point at which the fish are landed.

Freshwater fisheries also included The MSC Principles and Criteria apply at this stage only to wild capture fisheries (including, but not limited to shellfish, crustaceans and cephalopods). Aquaculture not currently included but some types of enhanced fisheries are (see enhanced fisheries section) Introduced Species Based Fisheries (ISBFs) may only be considered in scope if the introduction cannot now be safely reversed and if the introduction occurred at least 20 years prior to the application for assessment (see MSC website for further details) Issues involving allocation of quotas and access to marine resources are considered to be beyond the scope of these Principles and Criteria.

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Scope of the Principles & Criteria

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Peer Reviewer & Team Member On-line Training Introduction

For the next step in the training go to the Fishery Certification Process module

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