Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative (GSSI)
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This is across all sectors. GSSI is a global platform and partnership of seafood companies, NGOs, experts, governmental and intergovernmental organizations working towards more sustainable seafood through a collective, non-competitive approach to provide clarity on seafood certification and ensure consumer confidence in certified seafood. GSSI has created a Global Benchmark Tool for seafood certification schemes and a Supplementary Components document which shows a seafood certification scheme’s diverse approach and helps stakeholders understand where differences exist. This work allows seafood producers to better choose the scheme that works for their business, buyers to access simpler data to guide purchasing, and NGOs to use open information to promote sustainability. The GSSI benchmarks against environmental criteria.
In May 2018 the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF)’s Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative (SSCI) and the Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative (GSSI) announced their collaboration to provide a benchmark and recognition tool for social compliance schemes in the seafood sector. The CGF Social Sustainability Committee selected the seafood sector as one of the priority supply chains for their social sustainability workstream. Correspondingly, the GSSI Steering Board identified social compliance as a key priority area for the seafood sector. Similar to GSSI’s Global Benchmark Tool, the SSCI Benchmark will allow the industry to have access to a list of credible, robust auditing and certification programmes.
Successful launch of new Social Benchmarking scopes (10 May 2021). The SSCI has opened its social benchmark to the fishing, agriculture and land-based aquaculture sectors. It has launched benchmark requirements for its new At-Sea Operations and Primary Production scopes. The benchmark requirements, which include Social and Scheme Management Criteria, have been developed in close collaboration with the Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative (GSSI), bringing together the SSCI’s experience in supply chain social compliance and the GSSI’s expertise in the seafood sector, with support from IDH, the Sustainable Trade Initiative. it received it first benchmarking application on 11 June 2021, from the Responsible Fishing Vessel Standard (RFVS).
Significance for seafood businesses:
This is a scheme to benchmark the various standards that apply to the seafood sector to help stakeholders understand the differences between them. Sourcing seafood that is accredited to a standard provides reassurance that the seafood you are purchasing has been independently verified for environmental considerations.
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