Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. has recently announced that 10 products featuring the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) eco-label are now available in Supercenter and Neighborhood Market locations across the US, and German seafood Processor Deutsche See launched its range of MSC approved products in September.
The charity’s blue fish-tick logo is a way of identifying seafood from sustainable fisheries and can found on almost 400 products worldwide. Both companies are planning to extend their range of MSC products. The Wal-Mart range includes crab meat, hoki, salmon and Pollock based foods. Peter Redmond, Vice President, Wal-Mart Seafood and Deli, says: “We have set a goal to procure all wild-caught seafood for North America from fisheries certified by the MSC within the next three to five years”.
Deutsche See’s new range will include products based on hoki, wild salmon, Alaska pollock and herring and the company, plans to extend the MSC range to include saithe and pike-perch before the end of the year.
