Our Key Messages
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SCIENCE IS OUR GUIDE.
Science, not politics or profit, drives our policies and recommendations.
We make it possible for leading scientists to perform objective research.
That research makes the data we share more practical and reliable.
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OUR STAKEHOLDERS INFORM OUR POSITIONS.
Our stakeholders are foundations, scientists, NGOs, and RFMOs, plus the fishing, retail,
and food-service companies that participate in our work.We work with every stakeholder in developing the policies and practices that our fishing,
retail, and food-service partners follow.Those policies and practices help ensure a bright future for tuna fisheries worldwide.
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OUR FUNDING IS BALANCED, NOT BIASED.
We acceptsupport from two sources: charitable foundations and ISSF-participating companies.
None of our supporting foundations or companies set restrictions on our research, policies, practices, or recommendations.
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THINK OF US AS MEDIATORS
Our stakeholders are highly diverse.
They range from foundations, scientists, NGOs, and RFMOs to the nearly 30 fishing companies that participate in our work.
When stakeholder interests don’t seem to match up, we uncover opportunities for collaboration in diversity.
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WE DON’T ISSUE MSC CERTIFICATIONS,
BUT WE DO SHOW FISHERIES HOW TO GAIN THEM.The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) standard defines fishery sustainability.
Our work grows out of the science that supports the MSC standard.
We’ve always worked to set fisheries on the path to certification.
Our new focus on fisheries improvement programs (FIPs) means we’re working even harder to guide fisheries toward certification.