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  • Video

Tracing Lobster in Belize

Seafood Alliance for Legality and Traceability
2020
The Seafood Alliance for Legality and Traceability visited Belize in 2019 to learn and share with the wider seafood community how The Nature Conservancy integrated traceability to a lobster fishing cooperative. This video includes a Q&A session with Julie Robinson, who distilled for us her journey in carrying out this project.Press enter to go to this resource, Tracing Lobster in Belize
  • Infographic

Minimum Standards for Vessel Electronic Monitoring Systems

International Seafood Sustainability Foundation
2020
This infographic is based on ISSF's report on Minimum Standards for Electronic Monitoring in Tropical Tuna Purse Seine Fisheries. This infographic shows how purse-seine tuna vessels should configure and operate their electronic monitoring systems (EMS). It indicates which features and processes should be in place before, during, and after the fishing trip.Press enter to go to this resource, Minimum Standards for Vessel Electronic Monitoring Systems
  • Presentation

Transshipment Best Practices

Global Tuna Alliance
2020
This webinar discusses challenges and risks associated with at-sea transshipment, RFMO management, and the need for stronger regulations. ISSF and the PEW Charitable Trust collaborated with the NGO Tuna Forum to develop Best Practices for Well-Managed Transshipment, which includes 14 specific Best Practices and other recommendations covering three core areas: Management, Data Reporting, and Monitoring.Press enter to go to this resource, Transshipment Best Practices
  • Infographic

RFMO Best Practice Performance

International Seafood Sustainability Foundation
2020
This table shows which Regional Fishery Management Organization(s) (RFMOs) are leaders — that is, following best practices in fishery management — in several categories: IUU Vessel List, Authorized Vessel Record, Compliance Assessment Process, Observer Requirements, Supply & Tender Vessels, Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS), Transshipment, and Fish Aggregation Devices (FAD) Management.Press enter to go to this resource, RFMO Best Practice Performance
  • SALT Feature

Overcoming Barriers: Role of Human Behavior in Electronic Traceability Implementation

Seafood Alliance for Legality & Traceability (SALT)
2020
SALT has distilled lessons from existing traceability pilots to provide potential solutions to overcoming the challenges a company might face when adopting eCDT. This is the 5th and final in the "Overcoming Barriers" series, which speaks to how human behavior can both impede and catalyze electronic traceability implementation.Press enter to go to this resource, Overcoming Barriers: Role of Human Behavior in Electronic Traceability Implementation
  • Peer Reviewed Article

Responses of Indonesian Tuna Processing Companies to Enhanced Public and Private Traceability

Doddema et al.
2020
This paper employs a social practices perspective to analyze how and why the actual practices performed by tuna processing companies in Indonesia change in response to BRC certification and the EU IUU regulation catch certification requirements. The results demonstrate that responses are determined by the performance and embeddedness of existing social practices.Press enter to go to this resource, Responses of Indonesian Tuna Processing Companies to Enhanced Public and Private Traceability
  • White Paper

Electronic Technologies and Data Policy for U.S. Fisheries: Key Topics, Barriers, and Opportunities

Environmental Defense Fund
2020
This white paper focuses on electronic monitoring (EM) and electronic reporting (ER) programs within the United States and presents key findings and recommendations. This paper explores current EM regulatory approaches, key data issues (storage, transmission, ownership/access, confidentiality, and sharing), and discusses the main laws governing fisheries data.Press enter to go to this resource, Electronic Technologies and Data Policy for U.S. Fisheries: Key Topics, Barriers, and Opportunities
  • Tool / Toolkit

Tuna 2020 Traceability Declaration Government Partnership Toolkit

The Global Tuna Alliance
2020
The aim of these toolkits is to provide support to Tuna 2020 Traceability Declaration signatories in meeting their commitments. Each toolkit explains what each commitment seeks, the purpose of the commitment, and outlines supply chain actions. Where available, examples from companies that have met the commitment are presented as well as additional resource links.Press enter to go to this resource, Tuna 2020 Traceability Declaration Government Partnership Toolkit
  • Guidance Document

Technical Guidance on the Design and Implementation of Electronic Catch Documentation and Traceability in Vietnam

The Centre for Marinelife Conservation and Community Development
2020
This document aims to serve as a practical guide to help facilitate Vietnam’s transition from paper-based to catch documentation schemes to an appropriate electronic catch documentation and traceability system for Vietnam’s capture fisheries that can be aligned to the capacities, circumstances, and needs of Vietnam people while supporting regional harmonization within Southeast Asia.Press enter to go to this resource, Technical Guidance on the Design and Implementation of Electronic Catch Documentation and Traceability in Vietnam