Three Norwegian fisheries were awarded Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification at the European Seafood Expo in Brussels at the end of April.
The newly-certified fisheries are the Norway spring-spawning herring, the Norway North Sea and skagerrak herring and the north east mackerel pelagic trawl, purse-seine and handline fisheries.
In the 1970s, the spring spawning herring fishery suffered a near-total collapse, but it has since recovered, and in 2008, the Norwegian quota was for 926,000 tonnes.
Together, the certified fisheries represent over one million tonnes of herring each year.
The mackerel fishery catches 131,065 tonnes of mackerel and nearly all of the catches are provided for human consumption in the European and eastern European markets.
