Conservation Alliance for Seafood Solutions
Global
What is it?
The Conservation Alliance for Seafoods Solutions is a community builder in the responsible seafood movement and believes people can make more progress when they work together.
- Key principles to help guide seafood companies’ sustainability journeys – A due diligence model to create, implement, and strengthen your sustainable seafood policy over time that’s based on globally accepted frameworks;
- Sustainable seafood policies and action plans;
- Actionable resources that companies can use to inform their work and measure their progress; and
- Real-world examples of how businesses of various sizes and types across seafood supply chains have implemented key steps to protect the ocean, people, and communities.
What is it?
The latest version of the guidance aims to help businesses develop and implement sustainable seafood policies and is intended for any business that wants to begin or further its journey towards environmentally and socially responsible seafood, regardless of where it may be in the supply chain or sustainability journey.
It was developed with comprehensive input from industry experts and the nonprofit community.
Although focussed on seafood products and not specifically on aquaculture-feed ingredients it provides a valuable resource and framework that 1) could be easily applied and adapted to feed ingredients, and 2) applies to certain feed ingredients – namely byproducts or trimmings from fisheries and aquaculture.
This Guidance for Companies and supporting resources provides:
The guidelines also provide anonymous real-world examples of, and resources for, commitments, risk assessments, improved traceability, improvement initiatives, and monitoring and reporting. These are provided by a range of seafood supply chain stakeholders (large food service and retailers, importers, and processors), NGOs, and international governance organizations that can be applied, adapted, or provide inspiration in addressing the climate change and environmental impacts of aquaculture feed and the ingredients it contains.
What is it?
The Alliance Global Hub is an international community of experts excited about seeing ocean ecosystems and the people who depend on them thrive. Through their relationships, Global Hub Members build capacity and leverage tools, approaches, and experience to advance the responsibility of seafood production.
Global Hub Members include NGOs, businesses, academics, and human rights, and other experts working throughout the responsible seafood movement. The hub is open to any organization, group, business, academic institution, or individual expert working toward the Alliance’s vision of a world with an abundance of seafood where workers, communities, and our ocean all thrive.
What is a FIP?
A Fishery Improvement Project (FIP) is a multi-stakeholder effort to address environmental or social challenges in a fishery. These projects harness the power of the private sector to incentivize positive changes toward sustainability. Suppliers, retailers, and food service companies can support the efforts of their source fisheries by participating in or buying products from FIPs.
The Conservation Alliance for Seafood Solutions provides multi-language guidelines on the steps involved in creating a FIP through to capturing any subsequent improvements.