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SHETLAND’s inshore fishing sector scooped two awards at the annual Fishing News Awards, held in Aberdeen last night (Thursday). Shetland Shellfish Management Organisation (SSMO), which has been managing the isles’ inshore fisheries for more than 20 years, won the.
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SHETLAND Shellfish Management Organisation (SSMO), the organisation which manages the local inshore shellfish fishery, has passed its annual Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification audit for the brown crab and king scallop fisheries.  Â
In 2012 both fisheries became the only such sector of the industry in Europe to gain MSC accreditation, an ecological endorsement that was almost lost when the Open Seas charity challenged the certification in 2017 saying scallop dredging was causing unacceptable damage to the marine environment.
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Following a lengthy, and expensive, adjudication process the MSC eventually renewed the sustainable status of the isles scallop fishery.