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Comment: MSC certification system imposes $100,000 tax on Maine Lobster Industry

Seafood News editor John Sackton argues this 'do over' certification of an already-certified fishery amounts to an 'unnecessary tax'

By SeafoodNews.com | Sept. 11, 2014 17:06 BST
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By John Sackton, editor of Seafood News

This week a curious news item came across our desk. The Maine lobster industry was applying for Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification as a sustainable fishery [...]

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