clawed lobsters are found in the cold atlantic waters near maine and eastern canada prep and presentation marine stewardship council the marine stewardship council sets the standard for environmentally sustainable fishing around the world tion's goal is to recognize and reward efforts to protect oceans and safeguard seafood supplies for the future.” that the product bought was sustainably validates that we are adhering to costco's high seafood sustainability standards." costco and world wildlife fund another step costco has taken to pro- mote the sustainable sourcing of seafood is through a longtime partnership with the partnered with wwf for almost a decade working to improve the environmental and social impacts of seafood production in the bahamas to salmon farms in chile to shrimp farms in thailand wwf collaborates with several organi- zations in 100 countries to conserve many of the world's most ecologically important "we work directly with costco's team of buyers to engage their suppliers and their source fisheries and farms to improve practices on the water," says the fisheries and farms to meet the strong standards of the marine stewardship council and aquaculture "our relationship with companies farmers and fisheries around the world through the company's global supply to improve their practices." “people around the world love sea- sustain fisheries for current and future generations," says mardon from the shell cut lengthwise down the shell of a 5-ounce hands to crack the bottom of the shell place on baking sheet butter on the lobster tail inches from the heat source or until lobster stick a fork into the center of the meat and serving lobster salad dice cooked lobster tail pinch each of garlic salt and cayenne pepper and mayonnaise to fips for the future fishery improvement projects are often necessary for a fishery to become "seafood comes from all over the world and many seafood-producing countries do not have robust government agencies manage fisheries." fips help a fishery prepare for a sus- tainability assessment by a reputable able fishery is an easy goal to get behind for the producing countries and great products to sell at costco," mardon says lobster tale ing director of heritage bahamas lobster processor collaborated with other stakeholders and proudly earned msc certification for the bahamas spiny lobsters supplied to costco “msc certification is one of the most highly regarded robust eco-labels worldwide," as president of the bahamas marine exporters association "achieving this standard shows we are taking the long-term health of our reward took a lot of hard pledged its commitment to the continuous assessments needed to maintain it." "as the demand for bahamas be sidetracked but remain focused on the strength of the resource to ensure that our harvest efforts remain sustainable."-lb