Three fishing organizations from Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have come together to seek Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification for their brown shrimp operations.
If successful, they will together produce almost 30,000 metric tons of certified sustainable shrimp annually.
The Cooperative Fisheries Organization (CVO) of the Netherlands, the MSC GbR of Germany and the Danish Fishermen-Producers Organization (DFPO) decided one year ago to come together to enter the program.
Almost all 80 percent of all European shrimpers are in assessment in the MSC program, accounting for more than 95 percent of annual landings of North Sea brown shrimp.
