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What is SALT?

The Seafood Alliance for Legality and Traceability (SALT) is a global community of governments, the seafood industry, and non-governmental organizations working together to share ideas and collaborate on solutions for legal and sustainable seafood, with a particular focus on traceability–the ability to track the movement of seafood through supply chains.

SALT is a public-private partnership between USAID and the Packard, Moore, and Walton Family Foundations and implemented by FishWise, a sustainable seafood consultancy.

"What is SALT?" video by SALT team discussing the goals of the project.

Why Does SALT Exist?

Hundreds of efforts around seafood traceability exist. But they are not all aware of each other, nor able to learn from one another. SALT’s founding partners saw a need to bring people and ideas together since progress in this field had been thwarted by the disconnected endeavors. SALT’s goal is to gather these organizations into a cohesive community, working together to make seafood traceable.

Collaboration is challenging. So SALT facilitates learning events for people to connect in person, and maintains this traceability website to encourage online connections. SALT believes that sharing traceability knowledge virtually and in-person will spark creative solutions.

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It is a big challenge and no single entity can do this alone. It will take the collaboration of industry, non-government organisations, and governments. And it is the important work of initiatives like SALT that are driving this forward to become a reality.
Alistair Douglas, Eachmile Technologies

Increasing seafood traceability is critical because it’s one tool to help prevent illegal fishing, which reduces the sustainability of global fisheries and threatens the security of billions of people who depend on healthy fisheries for protein and income. Illegally caught fish can be mixed with legally caught fish at many points along the seafood supply chain. Unlawful fishing is often associated with other criminal activities such as human trafficking and forced labor. By increasing traceability in seafood supply chains, we can expose where illegal fishing occurs and prevent it from being sold on the global market.

Implementing traceability at every step of the seafood supply chain is a massive undertaking. Yet, SALT envisions a future with a more connected seafood community of industry, governments, and NGOs working together to promote comprehensive traceability systems. That outcome would grant wins for everyone: prevent illegally caught products from entering the market, strengthen sustainable fisheries management, and support equitable human welfare conditions for seafood laborers.

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RELEVANT RESOURCES

  • SALT Feature

SALT Newsletters

The quarterly SALT Shaker and monthly SALT 'Site Roundup provide the perfect seasonings of information for any seafood traceability enthusiast. Check out past issues here, and be sure to subscribe to catch the next issue. February 2023 - SALT Shaker, SALT Final Countdown! December 2022 - SALT Shaker, special edition 3 of 3 December 2022…Press enter to go to this resource, SALT Newsletters
  • SALT Feature

SALT DataLab Americas Report

Seafood Alliance for Legality and Traceability (SALT)
2018
The Seafood Alliance for Legality & Traceability Americas' DataLab provided a forum for stakeholders to voice problems around traceability and illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing, share concerns for social responsibility, and identify ways to work on those problems. Problem areas were: 1) lack of cross-learning platform; 2) under-valued & ineffective traceability; and 3) narrow-use systems.Press enter to go to this resource, SALT DataLab Americas Report
  • SALT Feature

SALT DataLab Asia-Pacific Report

Seafood Alliance for Legality and Traceability (SALT)
2018
This report presents the findings from the final SALT DataLab, convening stakeholders from around Asia and the Pacific for a two-day, highly participatory workshop designed to dig deeper into the main issues around traceability and IUU (illegal, unreported, and unregulated) fishing, and identify opportunities for knowledge sharing, learning, and collaboration.Press enter to go to this resource, SALT DataLab Asia-Pacific Report
  • SALT Feature

SALT DataLab EU/Africa Report

Seafood Alliance for Legality and Traceability (SALT)
2018
This report presents the findings of the SALT EU/Africa DataLab, the second DataLab workshop, focused on investigating the main issues around traceability and IUU (illegal, unreported, and unregulated) fishing, and identifying opportunities for knowledge sharing, learning and collaboration.Press enter to go to this resource, SALT DataLab EU/Africa Report
  • SALT Feature

SALT PartnerLab Report

Seafood Alliance for Legality and Traceability (SALT)
2019
This SALT report presents the findings from the 2019 SALT PartnerLab, identifying identified several areas where SALT could help seafood traceability progress; namely, promoting electronic catch documentation and traceability (eCDT) systems that benefit a range of economic, environmental, and social needs, or “comprehensive” eCDT.Press enter to go to this resource, SALT PartnerLab Report
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SALT Year4 Annual Report

Seafood Alliance for Legality and Traceability (SALT)
2021
Detailed annual report of the activities and accomplishments from SALT’s fourth year.Press enter to go to this resource, SALT Year4 Annual Report
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