Pacific West Seafood participates in the Wild BC Spot Prawn by Trap Fishery - a widely recognized sustainable fishery.
A sustainable fishery is one where management techniques ensure there will be still be a fishery for years to come. The Wild BC Spot Prawn fishery does the following to keep its sustainable status:
- Limits the number of vessels that can commercially harvest prawns
- Limits the fishery to trap gear - reduces by-catch of other species
- Limits the number of traps that each vessel can use
- Traps are limited to a single haul per day
- Returns any prawn under 33mm in size to the ocean, live
- Returns females with eggs back to the ocean, live
- Monitors the spot prawn population, closing the fishery when prawn stocks lessen
- License holders fund scientific research
Third-Party Recognition of Wild BC Spot Prawns as a sustainable fishery
David Suzuki Foudation's
SeaChoice program
"Best Choice"
Vancouver Aquarium's OceanWise program
"Sustainable Seafood Option"