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'One fish at a time': Indonesia lands remarkable victory

Tuna fishery gains first MSC gold standard after nation’s huge push to boost stocks, protect livelihoods and ban foreign vessels
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Artisanal fishers are often unable to compete for high-end markets because of the need for sustainability certificates and investment.
 Artisanal fishers are often unable to compete for high-end markets because of the need for sustainability certificates and investment. Photograph: Paul Hilton/Earth Tree
Indonesia, the world’s largest tuna fishing nation, has pulled out all the stops in recent years to transform the health of an industry blighted by depleted stocks and illegal poaching.

Measures by the government – which have even included the bombing of foreign vessels fishing illegally in Indonesian waters – have helped fish stocks more than double in the last five years.
But now the industry has reached another important milestone: one of Indonesia’s tuna fisheries has become the first in the country – and second in south-east Asia – to achieve the gold standard for sustainable practices.
The PT Crac Sorong pole and line skipjack and yellowfin tuna fishery, based in the province of West Papua, has been certified by the internationally recognised Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) standard for sustainable fishing.
The fishery, which has become a beacon of best practice in the region, runs 35 pole and line fishing vessels and employs 750 local fishers.
“The efforts made by the fishery to achieve MSC certification will help safeguard livelihoods, seafood supplies and healthy

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