DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8376963
title: Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Fisheries Standard v2.0 assessment scores

description: MSC fishery assessment scores manually collated by Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). See about file for complete details. This data has been manually collated by MSC from reports prepared by third party assessors. This dataset shows, for each Unit of Assessment (UoA), scoring data from the Public Certification Report of the UoA's most recent initial assessment or re-assessment conducted against the Default Tree v2.0 (including Default Tree v2.01) of the MSC Fisheries Standard as of 26 February 2021. A Unit of Assessment is a unique combination of target stock, fishing method or gear, geographic area, and operators or vessels being assessed which may eventually carry the MSC certification status. This excludes UoA which failed their assessment because failing scores are not consistently reported (they are often simply considered a ‘fail’). The following constraints and limitations apply to this dataset:<br> 1. This data has been manually collated by MSC from fishery reports prepared by third party assessors. MSC carries out data assurance to a standard that is fit for the purpose the information is used for, including being complete, accurate and as up to date as possible. If accuracy is paramount to a finite resolution, receivers are asked to validate data against assessment reports which can all be found published on fisheries.msc.org. The MSC is not responsible for any issues arising to any parties as a result of any information provided therein.<br> 2. This dataset shows, for each UoA, scoring data from the certification report of the UoA's most recent initial assessment or re-assessment conducted against v2.01 of the Standard as of 26 February 2021. This excludes UoA which failed their assessment.<br> 3. UoA details (uoa_details) can be joined to scoring data (scores) by the Event_unitbk. This will join the details of the scored UoA with the score that was awarded to the UoA. This dataset consists of two tables: 1. uoa_details<br> This table contains details describing UoA included in the dataset. UoA descriptions include the name of fishery as published on Track a Fishery (fisheries.msc.org), species, gear, and other description of the UoA that was assessed.<br> <br> 2. scores<br> Scoring results to the lowest level (scoring guidepost of the scoring issue) for each UoA, as presented in the scoring tables of the report. One row represents a single guidepost result of a single scoring issue. However, the performance indicator (PI) ‘Score’ will be duplicated for all scoring issues in the same PI. For example, if a UoA received a score of 80 for a performance indicator, and in this performance indicator there are 2 scoring issues each scored at 3 guideposts, there will be 6 total rows showing the results for each guidepost of each scoring issue, but all rows will show 80 for the overall 'Score' of the PI. One row also exists for each Principle score of each UoA, in which the principle will be noted in the 'PI' column, and the Principle score in 'Score'. Data has been copied from the scoring tables in the Public Certification Report.