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Red rating ignores FIP progress in Canada’s second-largest snow crab fishery

'We were not consulted at all. They didn't reach out. They don't know what we're doing. We haven't had a [whale] mortality or entanglement in five years' -- Katherine Morrissette

By Jason Huffman | Sept. 15, 2022 18:21 BST
Cooked and uncooked snow crab on display at the Boston seafood show. Photograph by Jason Huffman.
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The Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch program didn't contact anyone in the fishery improvement project (FIP) created last year by the snow crab industry in Canada's Gulf of Saint Lawrence before lumping it in with other fisheries to receive a red "avoid" rating, asserted FIP manager Katherine Morrissette in an interview with Undercurrent News on Thursday (Sept. 15). [...]

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