Whiting

The first European whiting fishery was MSC-certifiedMSC Certified:
Fisheries that comply with the Marine Stewardship Council assessment criteria and are certified. Fish products with the blue MSC label are caught by sustainable fisheries. in 2010. Meanwhile, a second fishery has been certified in 2019. These fisheries are mixedMixed fisheries:
Fisheries that fish on multiple fish stocks at the same time. Often there is one target species, but several types of multiple stocks are captured simultaneously. fisheries and also target haddock, European Hake, plaice, and saithe. More than half of the European fisheries for whiting is currently MSC-certified: 55% of the catch in the North Sea.

Fish in season 

Fish is in season when the spawning period has ended, as the quality is then at its best.

Whiting is a whitefish and direct family of cod, just like pollock, saithe, and saithe. Whiting lives close to the bottom, to dephts of 100 m. It is a long-lived codlike species, that can reach up to 20 years.

Whiting is eaten much in England and France, in the Netherlands it is an undervalued species. More than 80% of the whiting catch is discarded, circa 2300 tonnes per year. The survivability of these discards is low. Fishing with bottom trawls also directly disturbs the bottom life. Intensive fishing with a bottom trawls leads on the long-term to a changed species composition in sea.

Whiting has a quota and fishing mortality is regulated by catch limits (TAC, Total Allowable Catch), minimum landing size and gear regulations. Whiting was in 2017 partly under the landing oblication and from 2018 all catching methods are under the new law.