Firm awarded 'eco-label' for tuna fishing method
Consumers in the U.K. will soon be able to eat "environmentally friendly" tuna after an American company today became the world's first tuna fishery to be awarded the Marine Stewardship Council's eco-label. The American Albacore Fishing Association (AAFA) is only the 23rd fishery in the world to be given the MSC's independent accolade for sustainable fishing. The fishermen in the association use a "pole and line" technique which catches individual tuna and involves virtually no "by-catch"—other marine animals that get inadvertently caught in other methods used to catch the fish.
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