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The main consumer-targeted certification scheme for sustainable fisheries is failing to protect the environment and needs radical reform, say Jennifer Jacquet, Daniel Pauly and colleagues.

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  1. Jennifer Jacquet and Daniel Pauly are with the Sea Around Us Project at the University of British Columbia Fisheries Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada. j.jacquet@fisheries.ubc.ca ,

    Jennifer Jacquet & Daniel Pauly

  2. David Ainley is a marine ecologist at H. T. Harvey & Associates, Los Gatos, California 95032, USA.,

    David Ainley

  3. Sidney Holt is a marine scientist specializing in fisheries management who resides in Umbria, Italy.,

    Sidney Holt

  4. Paul Dayton and Jeremy Jackson are marine ecologists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.,

    Paul Dayton & Jeremy Jackson

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The Sea Around Us Project is funded by the Pew Charitable Trust, whose conservation arm, the Pew Environment Group, objected both to the pollock and the Antarctic krill certification.

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Jacquet, J., Pauly, D., Ainley, D. et al. Seafood stewardship in crisis. Nature 467, 28–29 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/467028a

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