Last week, Dagbladet was able to bring the news that the Swedish organization Världsnaturfonden WWF red lists north sea shrimp.
Nordsjøreka – more specifically, deep-water shrimp, or pandalus borealis – fished in Norwegian, Swedish and Danish waters.
Now the two-legged crustacean suffers the same fate in Norway. The WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) informs Dagbladet.
The Red List is rooted in a decision that WWF should to a lesser extent rely on certifications such as Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) and Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC).
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The reason for this is again “growing concerns about the reliability of the standards”, according to WWF.
– WWF wants to improve both the MSC and ASC standards, but our attempts have so far not led to the improvements that we believe are required.
This is what Secretary General Karoline Andaur of the WWF World Wide Fund for Nature says in a press release.
– Therefore, we have come to a situation where we can not automatically say that all certified fishing meets our criteria for sustainable fishing or farming. The consequence is that not all MSC- and ASC-certified products are automatically green choices in our seafood guide.
This year’s edition of The seafood guide – WWF’s consumer guide for fish and shellfish – launched on International Sea Day, Wednesday 8 June.
The guide ranks species according to the traffic light model, assessed according to the fish’s impact on the ecosystem, how the stocks are doing, and whether management and control are considered effective. Red light means “steer away”.
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WWF emphasizes that the organization has been working for a long time to get shrimp fishing in the North Sea and Skagerrak MSC-certified.
“But here too there are shortcomings that mean that the certification is not good enough. As a consequence, shrimp from the North Sea and Skagerrak get a red light in the Seafood Guide », it is stated in the press release.
Reka received a red light from WWF Sweden already in 2014, but the following year it was environmentally certified, and thus received a green light again from the Nature Fund.
The deep-water shrimp is Norway’s largest and most economically important shrimp species, according to Large Norwegian encyclopedia.
Norway’s most important shrimp fisheries are found in the Skagerrak, the Norwegian Channel and the Barents Sea, but the shrimp species is widespread along the entire Norwegian coast.
