The Danish shrimp fishery has moved a step closer towards attaining MSC certification, which is expected to provide the fishery with an advantage in sales terms as well as being a benefit to the stock.
‘We have been working towards this for the last five or six years, said Jesper Juul Larsen, chairman of the South-West Jutland Fishermen’s Association.
‘We have a management plan in place and stock assessments have been carried out. It has been a long haul so far, but now we are in the consultation phase which should be complete next year,’ he said.
He is confident that MSC certification will bring competitive advantages to the Danish shrimp fishery.
‘This could turn out be very important to us and environmentally certified shrimp are increasingly in demand in Germany, Holland, Belgium and France. This could be of great benefit to us in increasing the value of our fishery,’ Jesper Juul Larsen said.
