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Reason for Inactivity
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Missed two consecutive reports
Three years without environmental progress
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Missed deadline for three year audit report
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FIP Name
Reason for Inactivity
Explanation (Other)
INACTIVE Adriatic Sea European sardine - purse seine
Missed two consecutive reports
INACTIVE Barents Sea king crab - pot/trap (Keyport LLC)
Missed two consecutive reports
INACTIVE Barents Sea snow crab - pot/trap (Odyssey Enterprises)
Missed two consecutive reports
INACTIVE Brazil South Atlantic swordfish - longline
At FIP's request
INACTIVE Canada Lake Erie rainbow smelt - trawl
Other
The Lake Erie Rainbow Smelt fishery is voluntarily inactivating its FIP until the MSC has completed its review of forage related sections in the Fisheries Standard.
INACTIVE Chile stone crab - trap
Missed deadline for three year audit report
INACTIVE China crayfish - pot/trap
Missed deadline for three year audit report
INACTIVE East China Sea and Yellow Sea Japanese flying squid - trawl
At FIP's request
Other
Major changes in the nature of the fishery have led to the need for re-assessing the scope of improvements and work plan actions.
INACTIVE Gambia sole - bottom set gillnet
Missed two consecutive reports
INACTIVE Hawaii bigeye tuna and swordfish – longline
Missed two consecutive reports
INACTIVE India Palk Bay flower shrimp - trawl
Missed two consecutive reports
INACTIVE India threadfin bream - trawl
Missed two consecutive reports
INACTIVE Indonesia Aru and Arafura demersal fish - longline
Merged with another FIP
INACTIVE Indonesia Indian Ocean tuna - longline
Merged with another FIP
INACTIVE Indonesia Jepara blue swimming crab - bottom gillnet
Lack of stakeholder support
INACTIVE Indonesia Makassar Strait snapper and grouper - longline and dropline
Merged with another FIP
INACTIVE Indonesia Maros blue swimming crab - trap
Lack of stakeholder support
INACTIVE Indonesia North Java Sea snapper and grouper - handline and dropline
Merged with another FIP
INACTIVE Japan albacore tuna - longline
At FIP's request
INACTIVE Japan Hiroshima Pacific oyster - rope grown
Other
FIP withdrew from the MSC certification process and confirmed it did not plan to reactivate.
INACTIVE Japan Tomamae giant Pacific octopus - barrel flowing
Missed deadline for three year audit report
Failed to meet social responsibility policy
INACTIVE Lower Mekong Delta Kien Giang multispecies - trawl
Lack of stakeholder support
INACTIVE Mexico Bahia de Los Angeles octopus - trap/diver-caught/hand gathered
Other
Justification: Lack of appropriate conditions to work on-site. Justificación: falta de condiciones adecuadas en el sitio
INACTIVE Mexico Campeche blue crab - pot/trap & ring nets
Missed two consecutive reports
Failed to meet social responsibility policy
INACTIVE Mexico Gulf of California jumbo squid - jig
Other
This FIP has been paused until this fishery resumes and improvements can continue to be implemented. See description for details.
INACTIVE Mexico Gulf of California small scale blue shrimp - drift net/cast net/bottom trawl
At FIP's request
Other
FIP has completed workplan actions but has not achieved overall objectives. FIP is developing a new workplan with plans to reactivate in summer 2022.
INACTIVE Mexico Pacific Ocean shrimp - bottom trawl
Other
FIP fell out of MSC certification process and has not confirmed it plans to reactivate.
INACTIVE Mexico Puerto Libertad clams - hookah
Missed two consecutive reports
INACTIVE Mexico Quintana Roo spiny lobster – casitas/hand-harvest
Missed deadline for three year audit report
INACTIVE Mexico Western Baja California Sur swimming crab - pot/trap
Failed to meet social responsibility policy
INACTIVE Morocco sardine - pelagic trawl and seine / Maroc sardine - chalut pélagique et senne
Other
FIP did not enter full assessment process and did not meet reporting requirements to be moved back to Active.
INACTIVE New England ocean perch - hook and line/otter trawl
Other
FisheryProgress could not reach the FIP leads in order to demonstrate they are included in the MSC certificate for this fishery.
INACTIVE New England silver hake - trawl
Missed two consecutive reports
INACTIVE North Pacific blue shark and swordfish - longline
Missed two consecutive reports
INACTIVE Northeast Atlantic Ocean mackerel and herring - hook & line, trawl, and purse seine
Other
Reporting elsewhere
INACTIVE Pacific Ocean tropical tuna - purse seine (US Pacific Tuna Group)
At FIP's request
INACTIVE Panama shrimp - bottom trawl
At FIP's request
INACTIVE Peru hake - industrial bottom trawl
Missed two consecutive reports
Missed deadline for three year audit report
INACTIVE Peru mahi-mahi - longline (Confremar)
Missed two consecutive reports
INACTIVE Peru South Pacific Ocean swordfish - longline
Missed two consecutive reports
INACTIVE Philippines blue swimming crab - bottom-set gillnet & pot/trap (PACPI)
Missed deadline for three year audit report
INACTIVE Philippines blue swimming crab - pot (Saravia Blue Crab)
Failed to meet social responsibility policy
INACTIVE Russia Amur River/Sakhalin Gulf salmon - trap net/beach seine/weir/gillnet
Lack of funding
INACTIVE Shantou-Taiwan Chinese common squid and short arm octopus - jig/trawl
Three years without environmental progress
INACTIVE Shantou-Taiwan shortarm octopus - jig
Merged with another FIP
INACTIVE Southern Brazil monkfish - gillnet
Other
Lack of (adequate) customers to sell the product.
INACTIVE Thailand longtail tuna - purse seine
Missed deadline for three year audit report
INACTIVE UK Orkney brown crab - pot
Failed to meet social responsibility policy
INACTIVE US Jonah crab- pot/trap
Lack of funding
INACTIVE US North Carolina blue crab - pot/trap
Failed to meet social responsibility policy
INACTIVE Vietnam blue swimming crab - bottom gillnet/pot/trap
Other
Lack of ability to implement and enforce meaningful regulation
INACTIVE Western and Central Pacific Ocean tuna - purse seine (Thai Union)
At FIP's request
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