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Picked it up again, hoping to stick with it.

"In the MSC process, the third-party certifier evaluates the fish on a range of different criteria under three main categories: the sustainability of the target fish stock; the environmental impacts of the fishing (including accidental bycatch of seabirds, marine mammals, and other fish and the impact of the fishing techniques on the ocean environment); and finally how well the fishery is overseen and managed."

In the breeding area of Johnson’s, the cod had been separated into twelve different tanks, each one representing the light and photoperiod of a different month of the year. Since cod tune their spawning to the amount of daylight they receive each day, the staggering of light made it possible to have at least one group of cod spawning every month.

"But there are some who would argue that the herding of fish is an intermediate step and that if we want to get truly efficient and productive, we have to turn the corner from herding and move on to outright cod farming, as we have done with salmon and sea bass—an entirely controlled path in which cod are taken out of the classic multi-input natural environment and put under monocultural human husbandry."