Dive Deeper

This presentation traces Bumble Bee's traceability journal, and how they came to create a consumer-facing website after recognizing the increasing consumer demand for transparency and product information. This presentation walks you through the components of the consumer-facing website.Press enter to go to this resource, Bumble Bee Seafoods Product Traceability Process and Consumer Facing Website

IUU fishing poses a threat to fishing activies and livelihoods, can jeopardize food security, benefits transnational crime, distorts markets, contributes to human trafficking, and undermines efforts to implement sustainable fisheries policies. This report addresses the current state of IUU fishing across the globe, and current efforts to counter IUU fishing.Press enter to go to this resource, Global Implications of Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing

The Moratorium Protection Act requires NOAA Fisheries to produce a biennial report to Congress that lists nations the United States has identified for illegal, unreported, and unregulated, or IUU, fishing and/or bycatch of protected species and shark catches on the high seas for nations that do not have regulatory measures comparable to the United States.Press enter to go to this resource, U.S. Identification of IUU Fishing Activities

This list outlines the countries that have been declared Flags of Convenience (or FOCs) by the ITF's Fair Practices Committee (a joint committee of ITF seafarers' and dockers' unions).Press enter to go to this resource, Current Registries Listed as Flags of Convenience

This list contains all ships that are currently banned from the Paris MoU region.Press enter to go to this resource, Paris MoU on Port State Control Banned Vessels List

This website serves as a portal to the U.S. activities and the federal agencies involved with implementing the recommendations of a 2014 joint U.S. Government Task Force to comprehensively combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and seafood fraud from entering the U.S. market place.Press enter to go to this resource, IUU Fishing and Seafood Fraud Web Portal

The findings from the research into the tuna sector in Bitung, Indonesia are presented in the following report. They are a result of assessments of labor conditions in pilot fisheries that helped the project inform approaches on how to integrate relevant labor data into the CDTs.Press enter to go to this resource, Labor Conditions in the Tuna Sector: Bitung, Indonesia

In 2018, Anova Food, LLC. joined USAID Oceans’ network of partners to establish full-chain traceability for tuna products harvested in Southeast Asia that are imported into the United States. The following case study presents the benefits of “bait-to-plate” electronic traceability systems, as seen through USAID Oceans’ partner, Anova.Press enter to go to this resource, Case Study: The Value of Traceability for Business (Anova Food, LLC.)

This guide details the “minimum” recommended KDEs to be captured within each link of the seafood supply chain under the scope of the USAID Oceans-supported CDT Systems, as well a summary overview of those required by predominant import markets and international organizations.Press enter to go to this resource, Recommended Key Data Elements for Catch Documentation & Traceability