The Chubut onshore Argentine red shrimp fishery recently achieved certification to the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) standard, even as the overall fishery is facing a potential economic crisis causing boats to stay at the dock.
MSC announced the fishery achieved certification in late March after a full decade of dedicated improvements to the fishery. The achievement makes it the first coastal shrimp fishery in Argentina to obtain the certification.
The fishery formally entered the MSC assessment process in 2024 but had been making progress for years. The onshore fishery, based out of the port of Chubut in Argentina, developed a fishery improvement project (FIP) in 2014, and the offshore fishery followed suit in 2016. The fishery was getting close by 2018 to completing the FIP goals and hoped to cross the finish line by 2019, but delays in rulemaking kept it from entering the full MSC process.
Now, roughly a year after entering the formal assessment, the onshore fishery is certified to the MSC standard.
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