The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) said the Alaska sablefish (black cod) fishery has been re-certified to the Alaska Responsible Fisheries Management (RFM) certification program.
The fishery was first certified to RFM in fall of 2011 and began the re-certification process about a year ago.
"The Alaska sablefish fishery achieved full conformity to each of the conformance criteria evaluated," the assessment states. "The assessment team recommended that the management system of the applicant fishery, the US Alaska sablefish fishery, under federal (NMFS/NPFMC) and state (ADFG) management, fished with benthic longline, pots and trawl gear (within Alaska's 200 nm EEZ), should be awarded continuing certification to the Alaska RFM certification program."
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