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Explore traceability, counter-illegal fishing, and social responsibility efforts.

Click on any region of the map for information on work occurring worldwide that addresses these seafood issues. SALT believes learning and collaboration will accelerate progress in these topics, so we’ve included descriptions and contact information to connect. Use the search functions below to dive into our list view.

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region: Australia and New Zealand
TOTAL EFFORTS: 92
Includes 81 global efforts
  • Traceability: 69
  • Counter-IUU Fishing: 54
  • Social Responsibility: 18
Some efforts address multiple topics
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region: Caribbean
TOTAL EFFORTS: 85
Includes 81 global efforts
  • Traceability: 61
  • Counter-IUU Fishing: 52
  • Social Responsibility: 17
Some efforts address multiple topics
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region: Central America
TOTAL EFFORTS: 100
Includes 81 global efforts
  • Traceability: 78
  • Counter-IUU Fishing: 54
  • Social Responsibility: 20
Some efforts address multiple topics
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region: Central Asia
TOTAL EFFORTS: 85
Includes 81 global efforts
  • Traceability: 63
  • Counter-IUU Fishing: 50
  • Social Responsibility: 16
Some efforts address multiple topics
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region: Eastern Africa
TOTAL EFFORTS: 101
Includes 81 global efforts
  • Traceability: 70
  • Counter-IUU Fishing: 61
  • Social Responsibility: 20
Some efforts address multiple topics
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region: Eastern Asia
TOTAL EFFORTS: 93
Includes 81 global efforts
  • Traceability: 70
  • Counter-IUU Fishing: 55
  • Social Responsibility: 19
Some efforts address multiple topics
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region: Eastern Europe
TOTAL EFFORTS: 93
Includes 81 global efforts
  • Traceability: 70
  • Counter-IUU Fishing: 52
  • Social Responsibility: 18
Some efforts address multiple topics
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region: Global
TOTAL EFFORTS: 162
Includes 81 global efforts
  • Traceability: 59
  • Counter-IUU Fishing: 49
  • Social Responsibility: 15
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region: Melanesia
TOTAL EFFORTS: 89
Includes 81 global efforts
  • Traceability: 65
  • Counter-IUU Fishing: 51
  • Social Responsibility: 17
Some efforts address multiple topics
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region: Micronesia
TOTAL EFFORTS: 86
Includes 81 global efforts
  • Traceability: 63
  • Counter-IUU Fishing: 52
  • Social Responsibility: 17
Some efforts address multiple topics
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region: Middle Africa
TOTAL EFFORTS: 85
Includes 81 global efforts
  • Traceability: 61
  • Counter-IUU Fishing: 52
  • Social Responsibility: 15
Some efforts address multiple topics
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region: North America
TOTAL EFFORTS: 147
Includes 81 global efforts
  • Traceability: 123
  • Counter-IUU Fishing: 61
  • Social Responsibility: 23
Some efforts address multiple topics
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region: Northern Africa
TOTAL EFFORTS: 89
Includes 81 global efforts
  • Traceability: 63
  • Counter-IUU Fishing: 53
  • Social Responsibility: 18
Some efforts address multiple topics
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region: Northern Europe
TOTAL EFFORTS: 98
Includes 81 global efforts
  • Traceability: 75
  • Counter-IUU Fishing: 53
  • Social Responsibility: 20
Some efforts address multiple topics
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region: Polynesia
TOTAL EFFORTS: 85
Includes 81 global efforts
  • Traceability: 62
  • Counter-IUU Fishing: 51
  • Social Responsibility: 17
Some efforts address multiple topics
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region: South America
TOTAL EFFORTS: 97
Includes 81 global efforts
  • Traceability: 74
  • Counter-IUU Fishing: 55
  • Social Responsibility: 20
Some efforts address multiple topics
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region: Southeast Asia
TOTAL EFFORTS: 119
Includes 81 global efforts
  • Traceability: 91
  • Counter-IUU Fishing: 67
  • Social Responsibility: 30
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region: Southern Africa
TOTAL EFFORTS: 95
Includes 81 global efforts
  • Traceability: 67
  • Counter-IUU Fishing: 56
  • Social Responsibility: 18
Some efforts address multiple topics
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region: Southern Asia
TOTAL EFFORTS: 90
Includes 81 global efforts
  • Traceability: 67
  • Counter-IUU Fishing: 49
  • Social Responsibility: 22
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region: Southern Europe
TOTAL EFFORTS: 93
Includes 81 global efforts
  • Traceability: 70
  • Counter-IUU Fishing: 51
  • Social Responsibility: 19
Some efforts address multiple topics
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region: Western Africa
TOTAL EFFORTS: 100
Includes 81 global efforts
  • Traceability: 68
  • Counter-IUU Fishing: 63
  • Social Responsibility: 20
Some efforts address multiple topics
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region: Western Asia
TOTAL EFFORTS: 85
Includes 81 global efforts
  • Traceability: 63
  • Counter-IUU Fishing: 50
  • Social Responsibility: 17
Some efforts address multiple topics
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region: Western Europe
TOTAL EFFORTS: 96
Includes 81 global efforts
  • Traceability: 73
  • Counter-IUU Fishing: 53
  • Social Responsibility: 18
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(en)visible

Topic:
  • Traceability
Sector:
  • Traceability Program
(en)visible provides end to end services for responsible food programs from traceability technology to stakeholder and consumer engagement. Ultimately, they focus on responsible sourcing, technology and sustainability programs that enable brands to deliver better quality, storied products to their customers. Learn More about (en)visibleby pressing enter to expand the content. …

(en)visible provides end to end services for responsible food programs from traceability technology to stakeholder and consumer engagement. Ultimately, they focus on responsible sourcing, technology and sustainability programs that enable brands to deliver better quality, storied products to their customers.

Region:
  • Global
Harvest:
  • Aquaculture
  • Wild-capture

Contact Information

Contact Name: Not Available
Contact Email: Contact form on website
Website: envisible.co/solutions
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ABALOBI ICT4Fisheries Restaurant Supported Fishery & Community-level Fisheries Improvement Project

Topic:
  • Traceability
Sector:
  • Non-profit Organization
  • Other (Please specify)
Initially ABALOBI ICT4Fisheries embarked on the journey of co-designing technology with South African small-scale fishers, seeking approaches for fishers to collect reliable data, and to benefit from the use of such data in terms of improved accounting and fisheries management. Subsequently the ABALOBI Marketplace was built which empowered small-scale fishers to sell directly to restaurants,… Learn More about ABALOBI ICT4Fisheries Restaurant Supported Fishery & Community-level Fisheries Improvement Projectby pressing enter to expand the content. …

Initially ABALOBI ICT4Fisheries embarked on the journey of co-designing technology with South African small-scale fishers, seeking approaches for fishers to collect reliable data, and to benefit from the use of such data in terms of improved accounting and fisheries management. Subsequently the ABALOBI Marketplace was built which empowered small-scale fishers to sell directly to restaurants, initiating South Africa’s first Restaurant-Supported Fishery. The ABALOBI Marketplace platform facilitates electronic payments directly to the fishers, with full transparency on the return they receive. In addition, there is full transparency on the component of
the selling price allocated to a logistics fee that covers delivery of the fish to the restaurant’s door. This degree of transparency in value chains is unusual yet critical if we are to enable small-scale fishers to realise a fair value for their catch and build tangible market incentives for responsible fishing practices.

Region:
  • Southern Africa
Harvest:
  • Wild-capture
Social Responsibility: Following-on from the Restaurant Supported Fishery that was catalysed by the ABALOBI Marketplace platform, ABALOBI ICT4Fisheries is about to formalise the first Community-level Fishery Improvement Project (C-FIP) in South Africa. A FIP is a multi-stakeholder effort to improve the sustainability of a fishery and its associated supply chains. While FIPs vary in scope and nature, to be considered as such, a FIP must meet a number of requirements pertaining to participation, funding, transparency and rigour. In order to benchmark the small-scale fisheries we work with, internationally recognised ecological, social and governance standards will be used in combination with locally identified indicators of progress, and Action Plans will be developed with fishing communities, restaurants and stakeholders. These Action Plans will track fisheries progress against an agreed set of milestones.

Contact Information

Contact Name: Chris Kastern
Contact Email: chris@abalobi.org
Website: abalobi.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ABALOBI-MANIFESTO-AUG-2019.pdf
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ABALOBI ICT4Fisheries Traceability Technology

Topic:
  • Counter-IUU Fishing
  • Social Responsibility
  • Traceability
Sector:
  • Non-profit Organization
  • Technology Solution
  • Traceability Program
The ABALOBI ICT4Fisheries Traceability Technology has been co-designed with small-scale fishers to ensure that it is relevant to their context. The traceability technology is implemented through an integrated system of customised mobile applications and online platforms which can effectively track seafood from landing site to the final consumer. It incorporates crosschecking and validation of data… Learn More about ABALOBI ICT4Fisheries Traceability Technologyby pressing enter to expand the content. …

The ABALOBI ICT4Fisheries Traceability Technology has been co-designed with small-scale fishers to ensure that it is relevant to their context. The traceability technology is implemented through an integrated system of customised mobile applications and online platforms which can effectively track seafood from landing site to the final consumer. It incorporates crosschecking and validation of data points across the ABALOBI Fisher App, ABALOBI Marketplace App, ABALOBI Monitor App, and ABALOBI Admin Panel online platform. The key to the success of this integrated technology is that all stakeholders along a small-scale fisheries value chain can readily track seafood moving through the traceability system. In addition, the ABALOBI ICT4Fisheries Traceability Technology enables a consumer facing QR Code to be generated that captures the unique story behind each seafood species in real time. This provides visibility for small-scale fishers and helps them differentiate their seafood products.

Region:
  • Eastern Africa
  • Global
  • Southern Africa
Harvest:
  • Wild-capture
Social Responsibility: The ABALOBI Fisher App not only forms the foundation of the ABALOBI ICT4Fisheries Traceability Technology, it also provides a means to introduce small-scale fishers to the ABALOBI programme and help them understand the ABALOBI vision of thriving, equitable and sustainable fishing communities. This vision is underpinned by the following four functionalities linked to the ABALOBI Fisher App. Firstly the app enables small-scale fishers to co-produce knowledge by recording various oceanic, atmospheric and fisheries parameters, enter their catches into a daily electronic logbook, and utilise dashboards to visualise their data and fishing history. Secondly, the app provides a basic accounting platform where small-scale fishers can log income and expenses, thus providing these fishers with a tool to build a financial profile and prove to financial institutions that they earn an income through fishing. Thirdly, although all participating small-scale fishers using the app own their data, the platform enables them to share different data elements with various fisheries stakeholders should they choose to do so. Critically, this data can also be used by the fishers to legitimise their work, for example demonstrating to a government during a rights allocation process that fishing is their primary livelihood activity. Lastly, the app allows for various fishing community members to register and record various activities linked to marine resource utilisation. From fish cleaning services for fishers returning from sea to the small-scale production of value-added products utilising coastal and marine resources, these activities can be recorded on the app which assists in building a more holistic picture of how a small-scale fishing community functions and how benefits are distributed.

Contact Information

Contact Name: Chris Kastern
Contact Email: chris@abalobi.org
Website: www.abalobi.org
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ACGT, Inc.

Topic:
  • Traceability
Sector:
  • DNA Testing Company
Seafood ID from ACGT, Inc. utilizes DNA analysis to identify seafood species. In a traceability program, a species snapshot of representative or “sentinel” fish or shellfish – not individuals – provides a spot verification of pre-existing validated processes. Learn More about ACGT, Inc.by pressing enter to expand the content. …

Seafood ID from ACGT, Inc. utilizes DNA analysis to identify seafood species. In a traceability program, a species snapshot of representative or “sentinel” fish or shellfish – not individuals – provides a spot verification of pre-existing validated processes.

Region:
  • North America
Harvest:
  • Aquaculture
  • Wild-capture

Contact Information

Contact Email: dnaseq@acgtinc.com
Website: www.acgtinc.com/specialty-services/species-identification/seafood-species-identification
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Alaska Responsible Fisheries Management Program

Topic:
  • Traceability
Sector:
  • Certification
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… Learn More about Alaska Responsible Fisheries Management Programby pressing enter to expand the content. …

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 the the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries and the FAO Guidelines for Eco-labelling. GSSI recognizes the Alaska Responsible Fisheries Management Certification Program.

Region:
  • North America
Harvest:
  • Wild-capture

Contact Information

Contact Name: Not Available
Contact Email: info@alaskaseafood.org
Website: www.alaskaseafood.org/rfm-certification
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Anchor Lab

Topic:
  • Counter-IUU Fishing
  • Traceability
Sector:
  • Electronic Monitoring System
Anchor Lab provides solutions for electronic monitoring for a variety of fisheries monitoring strategies. Their systems can be customized to meet different requirements for different fisheries. They provide both solutions for the automation of data collection onboard, and the tools used to analyze fishing activites. Via their ‘Black Box Video System’, they use video capture… Learn More about Anchor Labby pressing enter to expand the content. …

Anchor Lab provides solutions for electronic monitoring for a variety of fisheries monitoring strategies. Their systems can be customized to meet different requirements for different fisheries. They provide both solutions for the automation of data collection onboard, and the tools used to analyze fishing activites. Via their ‘Black Box Video System’, they use video capture to document catch handling/processing procedures, gear setting/retrieval, and discard activities. They also have an additional system, designed for fishing around sensitive areas (such as MPAs). They also provide a Black Box Data Analysis Software – a data presentation system designed for visualizing and reviewing data from their Black Box Systems.

Region:
  • Global
Harvest:
  • Wild-capture

Contact Information

Contact Name: Not Available
Contact Email: info@anchorlab.net
Website: www.anchorlab.dk/EFM.aspx
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Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium

Topic:
  • Traceability
Sector:
  • Non-profit Organization
New England Aquarium’s Sustainable Seafood Program works with seafood retailers and suppliers to encourage the sustainable development of farmed and wild-caught seafood resources. The Aquarium advises these companies on issues related to seafood sustainability and facilitates proactive changes along their supply chains to promote marine conservation. Developing a variety of strategies and tools to enhance… Learn More about Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquariumby pressing enter to expand the content. …

New England Aquarium’s Sustainable Seafood Program works with seafood retailers and suppliers to encourage the sustainable development of farmed and wild-caught seafood resources. The Aquarium advises these companies on issues related to seafood sustainability and facilitates proactive changes along their supply chains to promote marine conservation. Developing a variety of strategies and tools to enhance transparency and traceability is a critical component of the Aquarium’s efforts with corporate partners and their supply chains. Strategies include: improving companies’ internal traceability systems; working through the supply chain to collect and verify product information, and; engagement of businesses, policy makers, scientists, and conservation colleagues in support of policies and other strategies to combat IUU fishing.

Region:
  • North America
Harvest:
  • Aquaculture
  • Wild-capture

Contact Information

Contact Name: Not Available
Contact Email: andersoncabotcenter@neaq.org
Website: www.andersoncabotcenterforoceanlife.org/our-work/programs/sustainable-seafood
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Applied Food Technologies

Topic:
  • Traceability
Sector:
  • DNA Testing Company
Applied Food Technologies (AFT) offers a DNA-based species identification service for seafood which meets FDA’s guidance by relying on adequately authenticated samples rather than publicly available databases. AFT compares all fish to a database generated from taxonomically identified references. Because the FDA’s current guidance states that they will only make regulatory decisions based on identifications… Learn More about Applied Food Technologiesby pressing enter to expand the content. …

Applied Food Technologies (AFT) offers a DNA-based species identification service for seafood which meets FDA’s guidance by relying on adequately authenticated samples rather than publicly available databases. AFT compares all fish to a database generated from taxonomically identified references. Because the FDA’s current guidance states that they will only make regulatory decisions based on identifications using adequately authenticated standards, AFT helps a firm comply with the FDA’s guidance. AFT clients for seafood species testing have included the FDA, NOAA, state governments, distributors, retailers, grocery store chains, and restaurants, among others.

Region:
  • North America
Harvest:
  • Aquaculture
  • Wild-capture

Contact Information

Contact Name: LeeAnn Applewhite
Contact Email: lapplewhite@appliedfoodtechnologies.com
Website: appliedfoodtechnologies.com
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Aquaculture Stewardship Council

Topic:
  • Social Responsibility
  • Traceability
Sector:
  • Certification
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… Learn More about Aquaculture Stewardship Councilby pressing enter to expand the content. …

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 enhance supply chain transparency, mitigate risk and provide greater verifiable information to meet industry expectations. The KDE project is being developed with collaboration farms, industry and retailers and the ASC works together with the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability (GDST) towards industry alignment and interoperability. The collected data, of which some will flow through the complete supply system, will most likely be species-dependent. These data elements will evolve as the standards, requirements and needs of the supply chain evolve. In 2020, the ASC will evaluate the results of the pilots in relation to wider implementation.

Region:
  • Global
Harvest:
  • Aquaculture
Social Responsibility: Includes social criteria in its certification standards.

Contact Information

Contact Name: Kristof Bevernage
Contact Email: kristof.bevernage@asc-aqua.org
Website: www.asc-aqua.org
ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS:
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
wwf.org
The Sustainable Trade Initiative
www.idhsustainabletrade.com/sectors/aquaculture

For information on what philanthropic, government, and international agencies are funding initiatives around the world to better seafood traceability and counter-IUU fishing practices, please use the Funding the Ocean map.

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