Fishing group hosts first stakeholders’ workshop

THE PNG Fishing Industry Association has held its first stakeholders’ workshop for the first step of the formal process of marine stewardship certification full assessment.
According to PNG FIA, following the formal signing of service agreement with conformity assessment body (CAB)-SCS Global Services, PNG fishery stakeholders reviewed SCS’s checklist.
They begn compiling all requisite document gathering needed for assessment to be carried out by SCS for PNG marine stewardship certification (MSC).
The CAB had provided a checklist to the FIA of what was needed in order for the MSC assessment to take place. The workshop facilitated for client’s requirement in the preparatory information gathering.
It was very important that every stakeholder concerned was involved.
The assessment will be based on MSC’s fishery standards of three key principles which include:

• Fishery must be sustainable for longer-term use,
• Minimise environmental impacts on ecosystem and effective governance; and
• Management systems which incorporate institutional and operational frameworks.
  The PNG FIA will have to demonstrate that it has met this standard before it can be certified.