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Frequentz is a supporter of end-to-end visibility, offering comprehensive traceability, serialization, and information management technologies. Frequentz’s technology captures a number of data points and attributes for a given item, including catch location, method, and species information and transfers them along the chain of custody to processors, retailers, and restaurants. They partner with certified testing labs

The Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) standards require verifiable systems for traceability that fully account for all inputs, production, and outputs at each step in the production chain. Systems can be online, paper, electronic, or a combination and are verified during on site audits. Mass balance and mock recall tests are required

Friend of the Sea’s criteria follow the FAO Guidelines for ecolabelling and include traceability. FOS chain of custody standard is designed to ensure certified seafood can be traced back to the sustainable source. The requirements state that a program must be in place to prevent product mixing with uncertified sources, that origin and fishing method

The Food Alliance launched its sustainability standard for farmed shellfish in 2010 and began certifying to that standard in 2011. The standard applies to North American shellfish farms that produce oysters, clams, mussels, and geoducks. The program does not cover wild harvest. As with all Food Alliance Certified agricultural products, any shellfish product that carries

Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) Key Data Elements (KDE) project: In line with their commitment to continuous improvement, the Programme Assurance team initiated a project aimed at introducing technology to improve digital traceability. This involves using software to capture and convey key data elements from certified farm origin throughout the supply chain. The project aims to

The Alaska Responsible Fisheries Management (RFM) Program is an ISO accredited third-party certification program for wild-capture fisheries. The Alaska RFM Chain of Custody Standard ensures that seafood products bearing the RFM Certified Seal or a certification claim can be directly traced back through the supply chain to the certified fishery. Assessments are performed directly against

Companies that want to use the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) ecolabel must obtain independent verification that the product originated from a certified fishery, which must be demonstrated by a CoC certificate held at each link in the chain. To use the MSC ecolabel companies must also have an MSC ecolabel license. The MSC CoC is

The GLOBALG.A.P. Aquaculture Standard operates under a third-party accredited certification system. To claim certified status at point of sale, all stages of production must be certified: feed, seedlings, farming, and post-harvest activities. GLOBALG.A.P. Aquaculture Certification requires the Integrated Farm Assurance All Farm & Aquaculture Modules, the Chain of Custody Standard, and the Compound Feed Manufacturing

In 2014, Fair Trade USA launched its Seafood Program in an effort to bring the benefits of Fair Trade to small-scale fishermen and their communities. Through Fair Trade certification and improved market access, strong fishing communities are built by ensuring financially stable fishing families, safe working conditions, access to services through community development premium investments,