Reporter WOOPSIE!!!

[mkirda]

Members of this forum have been saying that there is no netting being provided to MAC collectors.

John,

As far as I know, MAC has never provided a single net to any collector anywhere. The fishermen I spoke with all sourced their netting materials on their own, outside of MAC, or made the nets by hand themselves. Peter Scott sure did not show up and help them hand-tie a few meters of barrier netting... :wink:

This audience was recently told that MAC actually tells exporters to mix non-MAC Certified fish with Certified. Completely false and misleading.

These criticisms are old, John, and originated in the Philippines, not here.

So now what you are saying is that MAC facilitates netting for their fishers but it is the wrong kind.

No, not at all. Please read above.

The 'tainted rumor' is/was that MAC provides (or facilitates the procurement of) no netting whatsover to the collectors. This has been implied.

And was true, at least in the two groups of collectors I had met with.
Or so the collectors told me. They used whatever it was they could get ahold of...

Regards.
Mike Kirda