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Stewardship Council is an international organization based in
London that aims to promote healthy and sustainable fisheries.
As part of its healthy fishery program, the Marine Stewardship
Council offers certification to fisheries and has an extensive
education campaign to encourage consumers to think about the
source of their fish. Marine Stewardship Council certification
is the result of a series of inspections and continued
monitoring, and indicates to consumers that the marine product
they are purchasing was produced with healthy and sustainable
aims in mind. Overfishing only became recognized as a serious
problem in the 1980s, when many formerly plentiful fisheries
began to experience serious declines in stocks. A number of
species, including orange roughy and Chilean sea bass, had been
driven to the brink of extinction by heavy fishing practices. In
addition to endangering the marine environment, overfishing also
hurt small fishing operations