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Address data and verification needs across fisheries and supply chains

Data and verification needs will differ across stakeholders and nodes of the supply chain. Recognize these unique needs while also considering how to safely and equitably collect, store, and share that data without compromising workers’ rights.
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Design eCDT program with unique data and verification needs in mind. Implement privacy and data access protocols that mitigate negative impacts to worker rights.

APPLY THE PRINCIPLE

There are three main phases to building an electronic catch documentation and traceability (eCDT) program:

INITIATE – includes early research, goal setting, and stakeholder engagement;
DESIGN – includes identifying technology, assigning responsibilities, and creating the systems to support the program;
IMPLEMENT – includes piloting the program, adaptively managing, and scaling it.

Here you can see how this principle manifests throughout each phase.

  • Map data needs and constraints along full supply chain
    • Map key data elements (KDEs) to critical tracking events (CTEs) within affected supply chains and identify where CTEs start and end given the different jurisdictions among different players (e.g., regulators, stakeholders, regional bodies, etc.). From this, define the minimum data required to meet program objectives

Relevant Guidance

  • White Paper

Ending Illegal Fishing: Data Policy and the Port State Measures Agreement

World Economic Forum
2019
This white paper examines how cooperation between countries to share fisheries data can be achieved and outlines a data-policy framework tailored for the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA).
  • Report

Data Requirements for Catch Documentation and Traceability in Southeast Asia

USAID Oceans and Fisheries Partnership (USAID Oceans)
2017
This document is intended to outline the terms, definitions, and intended uses of all relevant and required KDEs within a traceable, wild-caught seafood supply chain for Southeast Asia, in alignment with the ASEAN Catch Documentation Scheme (ACDS).
  • Report

Comparative Study of Key Data Elements for Import Control Schemes of the Top Three Seafood Markets: EU, US, & Japan

WWF, EFJ, TNC, and Oceana
2020
A comparative study of key data elements in import control schemes aimed at tackling illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in the top three seafood markets: the European Union, the United States and Japan.
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  • Design eCDT program with verification needs and challenges in mind
    • Create a data quality assurance protocol that includes a plan for verification
  • Ensure data access protocols
    • Clearly define who has access to the data and for what purpose, with special considerations to worker privacy
  • Identify how worker welfare will be monitored and supported
    • Identify governing agencies that have jurisdiction over data related to worker welfare and data security issues (e.g., Departments of Labor and/or Employment and enforcement of minimum wage, immigration status, and healthcare requirements) to increase the relevance and interoperability of any social data collected by the eCDT program. Identify existing protocols for how to share social data with agencies that oversee worker information
  • Implement safeguards to mitigate negative impacts to worker rights and privacy when collecting eCDT data 
    • Consult existing data privacy laws and identify processes, accountability mechanisms, or new schemes for responding to privacy considerations and stakeholder/user concerns as needed
Relevant Guidance
  • 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.
  • Report

Transformative Technology for Migrant Workers

Open Society Foundations
2018
This report focuses on digital platforms that facilitate migrants worker engagement in order to improve working conditions.
  • Guidance Document

Holistic Information Security for Human Rights Documentation

Responsible Data
2016
This is a working resource that intends to provide assistance to identify risks throughout the responsible data project life cycle.
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  • Confirm that the data verification plan and access protocols are maintained and supported
Relevant Guidance
  • Guidance Document

Recommendations for Addressing Seafood Traceability and Key Data Elements

FishWise, Future of Fish, Global Food Traceability Center, World Wildlife Fund
2017
This document outlines the level of seafood traceability that companies should commit to for both wild and farmed seafood products, as well as which key data elements (KDEs) they should implement in their traceability systems in lieu of a widely adopted, universal KDE list.
  • Report

Seafood Traceability Systems: Gap Analysis of Inconsistencies in Standards & Norms

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
2016
Throughout this report the importance of verification with traceability systems is discussed, and specifically noted on page 14. Additionally, this report analyses gaps in the current traceability standards and regulations worldwide.
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