Photo: David Linkie

The Stornoway langoustine fishery has entered full assessment against the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) standard for sustainable and well managed fisheries. The fishery, which is being sponsored through its assessment by Young’s, supplies the market with live langoustine and tails for scampi production. The process is expected to take 12-14 months to complete and if successful, will result in products from this fishery sporting the MSC label. 

Young’s has partnered the Stornoway fleet in a number of projects over the past five years, including the development of new ‘boat to plate’ traceability technology called Young’s Trace. This system gives the company exact information on where and how its langoustine is caught, and about its passage right to the processing unit. The data has also proved invaluable in pinpointing the best fishing areas, and in helping to reduce the catch of juvenile langoustines, which in turn helps to make the fishery sustainable. Gaining MSC certification will enable the fishery to publicly demonstrate this achievement.