Blue ticked off: the controversy over the MSC fish ‘ecolabel’

Approaching an entangled whale. FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute/flickr
Author
Karen McVeigh
Year
2021
Published in
The Guardian

The MSC’s coveted blue tick is the world’s biggest, and some say best, fishery ecolabel. So why is it in the headlines – and does it really do what it says on the tin?

This month, two right whales in the Gulf of St Lawrence were found entangled in fishing gear. One, a female, was first spotted entangled off Cape Cod last year, but rescuers were not able to fully free her; the other, a male, is believed to have become entangled in the Gulf.

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