Australia's most valuable single species fishery, the Western Australian Rock Lobster fishery, has gained a third MSC certification. With an estimated value of $200M per year, the Western Australia Rock Lobster fisher was first certified back in 2000 and was recertified in 2006. This recertification has again demonstrated that the rock lobster stocks are healthy, while fishing practices have minimal impact on the marine eco-system and the fishery is well managed.

As a result products from this fishery will continue to bear the blue MSC ecolabel, which assures customers that the products come from a sustainable and well managed fishery. These conditions relate to the setting of well defined harvest control rules, the use of data in setting these control rules and the collection of data on the spatial extent of the fishery. These conditions have been agreed by the fishery, and will be met by the second annual audit in November 2013.

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