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The Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) is a Honolulu, Hawai’i-based NGO working to engage seafood supply chains globally in rebuilding depleted fish stocks, reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming, and ensuring sustained economic opportunities for fishing communities.

Braddock “Brad” Spear is SFP’s prospecting and outreach director and is responsible for key initiatives ranging from the

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In seafood supply chains across the world, poor harvesting practices, inadequate processing and handling protocols, and a lack of supply chain oversight and traceability can result in lost value for producers and prevent international markets from accessing new sources of responsibly produced seafood.

To mitigate the issue, SmartFish, a nonprofit social enterprise based in La Paz, Mexico, has developed a Value Rescue Model for use in Mexican

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Despite representing half of wild-caught landings globally, small-scale fisheries continue to struggle to access larger markets.

The obstacles are multi-fold, according to the SSF Tech and Markets Intermediary Collective. Small-scale fisheries often face two major bottlenecks: a lack of traceable, verifiable data to confirm they are conforming to regulatory and buyer requirements; and inadequate infrastructure such as water treatment, cold

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Around 40 percent of the world’s fisheries landings come from small-scale operations, yet many of these fishermen struggle to gain access to international markets and miss out on lucrative export opportunities.

Nonprofit Abalobi works closely with small-scale fishers to alleviate this issue in South Africa, ensuring their operations are well-documented, verifiably legal, and equitably regulated in order to gain market

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Seafood companies around the globe have increasingly pledged to adopt more sustainable and responsible practices across their value chains.

Though these pledges often represent a positive step toward improving upon supply chain issues, the company-specific development of these commitments creates a challenge, as there is often very little alignment or consistency from one company to another.

This results in data and reporting that can identify

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The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) has spent over a decade bringing together tuna stakeholders to enhance the sustainability of the stocks – and that effort is working.

ISSF has been collaborating with a broad set of stakeholders, including ship captains, harvesters, processors, distributors, retailers, NGOs, RFMOS, and scientists, since 2009 to improve the management and health of tuna stocks. That effort has

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Started in 1990, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.-headquartered wholesale firm Aqua Star sources a variety of seafood from 17 countries, including shrimp, crab, lobster, salmon, haddock, pollock, calamari, scallops, and lobster.

In order to ensure responsibility in its supply chain, the company established its Seafood Forever program, which includes a Supplier Code of Conduct (SCOC) that addresses human rights, carbon accountability, environmental

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While small-scale fishers harvest a significant portion of global seafood’s annual catch – approximately 40 percent – programs and tools like certifications are often designed for industrial fisheries and then retrofitted for small-scale fisheries.

Community Catch was unveiled at Seafood Expo Global in 2025 to address such limitations with traditional seafood certification schemes.

SeafoodSource spoke with Community Catch

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Momo Kochen is a technical fisheries specialist with more than 15 years of global experience working on issues present in small-scale fisheries. She is currently the managing director of Ireland-based consultancy Moceans Environmental Consultants and serves as a senior fellow on small-scale fishery interventions at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Cecilia Blasco is the director of SmartFish Rescate de Valor AC, a Mexican nonprofit dedicated to

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Several organizations are playing an important role in designing a more responsible seafood industry. For instance, organizations like California, U.S.A.-based FishWise are using data collection, reporting, and learning loops to identify the most efficient and effective ways to implement responsible practices in the sector. Mark Kaplan, the chief sustainability officer and co-founder of traceability software firm Wholechain; Renee Perry, the… Read More