Key Facts and Figures
The MSC was founded in 1997 by the World Wide Fund for Nature and Unilever, and became fully independent in 1999. It has a staff of around 100 spread across the HQ in London, regional offices in London, Seattle, and Sydney, and local offices in Edinburgh, Berlin, The Hague, Paris, Cape Town, Tokyo, and the Baltic region.
The MSC program is open to all fisheries regardless of size, scale, location and intensity and runs a Developing World Program to ensure equal access to the program.
As of February 2012, there are over 13,000 seafood products available with the MSC ecolabel, sold in 74 countries around the world. Over 100 fisheries have been independently certified as meeting the MSC’s environmental standard for sustainable fishing and over 100 are currently undergoing assessment. 1,986 companies have met the MSC Chain of Custody standard for seafood traceability (link to chain of custody section of site). The MSC works in partnership with a number of organisations, businesses and funders around the world but is fully independent of all.
Read more about this topic: Marine Stewardship Council
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