TheMacquarie Island toothfish fishery has gained Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)certification.
Thefishery, which is operated by Austral Fisheries and Australian Longline, is thefourth certified toothfish fishery.
The newsmeans that nearly a third of the world’s “legally harvested toothfish” is nowMSC certified, the MCS said.
Only twomonths ago another Australian toothfish fishery, the Heard and McDonald Islandsfishery, also obtained MSC certification.
“We’vecome a long way from the days of battling against illegal fishing to savestocks, and seabirds, as well as introducing new methods of fishing to protectseabirds, marine mammals and the sensitive environment we fish for toothfish in,”David Carter, CEO of Austral Fisheries, said in a statement.
