Workshop: Using the GDST Standard to Understand and Fulfil Traceability Requirements in Your Home and Export Markets
Increasingly, seafood is a data-driven business. Regulators and customers expectations and requirements regarding seafood and its byproducts are evolving and expanding. Harvester, growers, processors, and all supply chain participants must capture data required by governments and data necessary for customers to track performance on their responsible sourcing commitments. The Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability holds the standard for digital interoperability in Seafood. Comprised of a core standard and expansion frameworks focusing on areas of interest including social accountability and marine ingredients, the standard allows the supply chain to capture and share required data in a uniform format that conforms to a broad range of reporting requirements. Part 1 of our […]
Presenting Indonesian Maritime Potential to the World through Making the Sea a Better Livelihood for Home and Export Markets
Indonesia has almost 3 million fisherfolks and most of them live below the poverty line, representing 25% of Indonesia’s poor communities (Antara News Agency). After working closely with the small-scale fishers, Aruna found out that the main problems in the coastal communities are involving the inefficient supply chain, poor data, and bad quality control. Aruna comes as a solution to solve these problems. We develop technology to help cut the long lines of the supply chain, ensuring the fishers get fair prices and access to a wider and more stable market. As Aruna is casting such a wide net across the nation, we are committed to put sustainability as our […]
Blue Transformation – A New Sustainable Paradigm for the Markets
The panel will examine efficient approaches to creating and accessing markets for aquatic products within sustainable production and the environment, resulting in improved nutrition and life on a meaningful scale. The discussion will center on the Blue Transformation, a targeted multistakeholder inclusive effort to secure and sustainably maximize the contribution of aquatic food systems to food security, nutrition, and affordable healthy diets by leveraging existing and emerging knowledge, tools, and practices and providing a framework to address sustainability challenges.
Women Empowerment in the Seafood Industry
Large seafood companies especially in countries where gender equality is a priority, are doing excellent work to promote women and provide opportunities, this is not the case in other contexts with barriers to women working in safe, respectful and meritocratic organization. What is the situation in different contexts, where is the success and what can we learn from them to apply in other contexts, and where do we need to do more work? What are the benefits to having diverse leadership and teams in seafood business? What can we implement to ensure that there is meritocracy? What does it mean in different contexts and cultures? How diverse and exciting careers […]
Bridging the Gap: Aligning Consumer Demand with Sustainable Seafood Supply Chains in Southeast Asia
The seafood industry in Southeast Asia is rapidly growing, driven by increasing demand and consumption. However, this growth presents challenges in ensuring traceability and sustainability throughout the supply chain. Traceability is crucial for maintaining food safety, combating illegal fishing practices, and promoting responsible sourcing. Sustainability efforts are vital to protect marine ecosystems and ensure long-term viability of fisheries. The latest Globescan study 2024 on global seafood consumption perceptions highlights the growing consumer awareness and demand for traceable and sustainable seafood products.Key findings from this comprehensive study provide valuable insights into consumer preferences, concerns, and willingness to pay premiums for responsibly sourced seafood. By implementing robust traceability systems and adopting sustainable […]
Workshop by The Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability – Session 2: Standard Adoption and Implementation Focus – Aquaculture Case Study
Regulatory changes and increased customer expectations in every major marketplace are driving supply chain actors to focus on capturing and transmitting traceability data from harvest to point of sale. This session will explore how Partnership in the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability (GDST), the industry-accepted Global Standard for digitally interoperable Seafood traceability and the use of GDST tests, tools, consulting, and services facilitates adoption and implementation within the aquaculture sector, from marine ingredients, harvest, production, export and distribution, to achieve this required transparency. Additionally, find out how the inclusive GDST Dialogue process will continue to progress the standard and keep it relevant within the evolving regulatory and responsible sourcing environment. […]
New Innovations To Improve the Seafood Supply Chain
The success of seafood startups in recent years and entrance of several investment funds have encouraged the growth of new innovators to support sustainability of the seafood industry. Join us to listen to the newest technologies from health to processing to find out how external innovation can benefit stakeholders across the supply chain in seafood.
From Hook to Cook: The role of Partnerships and Technology in ensuring Social Responsibility and Environmental Sustainability in the Tuna Supply Chain
JAM Seafoods, Inc. is a tuna processing company in Manila, Philippines, supported by the Meloy Fund, an impact investment fund focusing on financing small and medium-sized enterprises sourcing from sustainable fisheries that positively transform the seafood supply chain. JAM’s owner, Sam Garcia has played a key role as the Chairman of the Philippines Association of Tuna Processors, Incorporated (PATPI), a critical stakeholder in driving the Philippine Tuna Handline Partnership (PTHP) alongside two tuna fishers federations and WWF-Philippines to achieve Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification in October 2021.On this panel, JAM, PTHP and WWF share how they, in conjunction with their partners, support fishing communities through a holistic approach ranging from improving […]
The Fisheries Improvement Fund: A New Opportunity to Accelerate Fishery Sustainability in Asia
The Fisheries Improvement Fund (FIF) is a pioneering blended finance solution designed by Finance Earth and WWF in collaboration with leading industry partners to reverse the global trend of fisheries decline. Join us to hear about this new scalable funding mechanism for Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs) – a proven approach to improving the sustainability of wild catch fisheries – and its applicability in Asian fisheries. At the panel event we will present the Fund and share insights and viewpoints from a diverse panel of collaborators, including leading marine product buyers, NGOs and retailers, who consider this initiative critical to scaling fisheries improvement globally in an efficient and effective manner. A […]
Adapting approaches to fisheries sustainability: progress and challenges to address social responsibility and environmental needs in distant water FIPs
Improving the sustainability of the distant-water fishing (DWF) industry is critical for the longevity of fisheries and the food and livelihood security of coastal communities globally. Taiwan, a prominent DWF country, has adopted fishery improvement projects (FIPs) as an integrated approach to address sustainability challenges and meet global market demands. Drawing on our experiences in the Fue Shin Fishery Pacific Ocean Longline Tuna FIP, we reflect on our progress towards environmental improvements, and our nascent social responsibility efforts. One key improvement has been enhanced traceability within the tuna longline fishery as the result of collaboration between industry and local government to explore the adaptability of electronic monitoring systems. The panel […]