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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 Canada Newfoundland and Labrador lobster - pot/trap	Missed two consecutive reports Failed to meet social responsibility policy
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 Baja California Sur blue and brown shrimp – bottom trawl/cast net	Three years without environmental progress
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 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	Failed to meet social responsibility policy
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 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