Marine Stewardship Council

Maldives leads push for first-ever precautionary controls on tuna fishery

The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission, a regional fisheries management body, adopted last week a Maldives-led proposal to set harvest control rules on the skipjack fishery.

Eco-label suspended for Maldives yellowfin tuna

The suspension of the Marine Stewardship Council’s eco-label was based on by an assessment of yellowfin tuna stocks by the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission’s scientific committee, which “showed significant declines as a result of overfishing and relatively low reproduction levels.”

MIFCO yellow fin tuna receives Friends of the Sea eco-label

Local sustainable fisheries auditor appointed in Maldives

Maldives tuna source UK’s first certified sustainable tuna sandwich