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Luke’s Lobster co-founder: Industry won’t abandon MSC certification efforts

'You can now hit the restart button and start a new process that allows us to get judged based on the present day, not on the past' -- Ben Conniff, Luke's Lobster

By Jason Huffman | Feb. 9, 2023 17:42 GMT
A bin of North American lobsters in Stonington, Maine. Photograph by Jason Huffman
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The US lobster industry hasn't given up on its Gulf of Maine fishery being certified again as sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) even if the main group behind the effort has at least temporarily thrown up a white flag, asserts Ben Conniff, the co-founder and chief marketing officer at Luke's Lobster [...]

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