SEAFOODNEWS.COM by John Sackton — August 18, 2015 — Something fishy is going on in the rarified world of the Marine Stewardship Council’s global bureaucracy.

At the moment when the Global Seafood Sustainability Initiative is rolling out pilots for benchmarking sustainability standards so as to provide interoperability, the MSC is unveiling a new program, potentially mandatory, that would lock world seafood commerce to the MSC.

The program is called the MSC Online Transaction Solution or MOTS. It is designed to require every MSC chain of custody holder to report monthly all transactions of MSC products under chain of custody, with customer name, invoice number and volume.

The MSC and its auditors could then match sales up and down the supply chain in almost real time.

Why is such a program being proposed?

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