Seafood stewardship in crisis

Accreditation Services International, a company in Bonn, Germany, oversees the assessors, who use an open-to-the-public system involving independent scientists, input from stakeholders and external peer review. In our view, the certification system creates a potential financial conflict of interest,...

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Published inNature (London) Vol. 467; no. 7311; pp. 28 - 29
Main Authors Jacquet, Jennifer, Pauly, Daniel, Ainley, David, Holt, Sidney, Dayton, Paul, Jackson, Jeremy
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Nature Publishing Group UK 02.09.2010
Nature Publishing Group
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631/158/2446/1491
706/134
706/648/453
706/703/66
Certification
Conflicts of interest
Environmental protection
Fish
Fisheries - economics
Fisheries management
Humanities and Social Sciences
multidisciplinary
opinion
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
Seafood
Seafood - standards
Seafood - supply & distribution
Supermarkets
Sustainability
Sustainable fisheries
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Summary:Accreditation Services International, a company in Bonn, Germany, oversees the assessors, who use an open-to-the-public system involving independent scientists, input from stakeholders and external peer review. In our view, the certification system creates a potential financial conflict of interest, because certifiers that leniently interpret existing criteria might expect to receive more work and profit from ongoing annual audits. The MSC states: "It is not the purpose of the Objections Procedure to review the subject fishery against the MSC Principles and Criteria for Sustainable Fisheries, but to determine whether the certification body made an error."
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ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/467028a