As the post-COVID hospitality sector and seafood market bounces back with increased orders and in many cases, record prices for raw materials and logistics, seafood processors and other participants in global supply chains are facing tremendous working capital constraints. Increased demand and limited supply may also lead to disincentives to adhere to fishing regulations and responsible practices, despite increasing demands from consumers for high quality, well-traced, and sustainably-sourced products.

In this session, investees from fishing and seafood-related small and medium-sized enterprises in Indonesia and the Philippines, will share the different viewpoints and factors that incentivize the adoption of sustainable practices along the seafood value chain in meeting the challenges described above. This session offers a different lens to the role of impact investing in the seafood industry and explores the opportunity for financing and partnership to help seafood and related businesses emerge from COVID stronger and more profitable than before.