The pink Oregon shrimp fishery along the Oregon (US) coast was the first ever shrimp fishery to become MSCMSC:
Marine Stewardship Council, an independent, international non-profit organization that has developed an eco-label that guarantees well-managed, sustainable fisheries. Fish products that meet the criteria of the eco-label can be identified by the blue MSC logo.-certified in 2007. Under MSC certification, available information on this stockStock:
The fish of a particular species reproducing in the same area in the same period. has grown, catches and discardsDiscards:
Unwanted by-catch, which is thrown back because there is no quota, the market price is too low, or the fish is below the legal minimum landing size. Discards can be alive or dead. are recorded, management measuresManagement measures:
For fisheries, management measures can affect the amount of fish that can be caught, the type of gear that can be used and where fishing is and is not allowed. have been introduced and monitoring has been expanded. MSC-certified pink Oregon shrimp are caught using bottomBottom trawls:
A fishing technique in which cone-shaped nets terminating in a codend are dragged through the water column or along the bottom. trawls.