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Seafood provenance and authenticity

Seafood businesses operate in a complex marketplace where the motives and opportunity for criminal activity are manifest and ever-present – in other words; seafood is traded within a heavily risk-laden landscape. This briefing note aims to provide information on the nature of food fraud risks in seafood supply chains and outlines some useful counter-measures that may be deployed to reduce those risks..

Final CLG minutes for 11 November 2015 meeting

Final minutes of the Common Language Group meeting held at Friends House, London on Wednesday 11 November 2015.

Final Note on Seafood Ethics Common Language Group meeting on 10 February 2016

Final note on the Seafood Ethics Common Language Group meeting held at Friends House, London on Wednesday 10 February 2016.

EU Alert Monitoring – 26 February 2016

Brussels update of seafood legislation developments, including: Less salt, sugar and fat; EESC foos sustainability event; EU seminar on landing obligation; Onboard cameras / discard ban; landing obligation; Maximum sustainable yield (MSY); FAO; DG MARE - New Advisory Councils; TTIP; Slavery and trafficking in Thai fishing industry; Seafood fraud

Economics of the UK Fishing Fleet 2020

The report presents economic estimates at UK, home nation and fleet segment level for the UK fishing fleet. The estimates are calculated based on samples of fishing costs and earnings gathered by Seafish as part of the 2020 Annual Fleet Economic Survey.

Seafish briefing - Organisations addressing labour issues in the fishing and aquaculture sector. April 2016.

Since approximately 2006, various concerns regarding abuses of workers engaged in the seafood industry have steadily attracted more attention, from the media and civil society advocacy groups. The main concern has been reports of coercive treatment of certain categories of both sea and land-based workers, through abusive labour and recruitment practices variously referred to as slavery or slavery-like practices, forced and bonded labour, human trafficking, as well as serious forms of child labour. This has led to more monitoring, and a wide range of governmental, inter-governmental and NGO initiatives to address the concerns. There have been a number of studies into the scale of the issue but further study is required in order to determine the international scale of human rights and labour abuses in the seafood industry. This briefing note: details some of the key reviews that have looked at the scale of labour issues in the fishing and seafood sectors; and lists the organisations addressing labour rights in the fishing sector. This document was originally produced in March 2015 and was updated in April 2016.

Final Note on Seafood Ethics Common Language Group meeting on 21 July 2016

Final note on the Seafood Ethics Common Language Group meeting held at Friends House, London on Thursday 21 July 2016.

Eminent UK salmon retailers step forward to highlight consequences of inaction on North East Atlantic blue whiting management

The salmon-producing sector steps forward to echo calls for politicians to seize a rare, golden opportunity to reduce their blue whiting quota allocations.

Final ACIG minutes 23 September 2014

Final minutes of the Aquaculture Common Issues Group meeting held in London on 23 September 2014.

EU Alert Monitoring – 4 December 2015

Brussels update of seafood legislation developments, including Foreign Affairs Council meeting; Nairobi conference; TTIP; Pangasius water content; Official Controls Update; Landings Obligation – Storage of Undersized Fish; A new CFP structure for technical measures and multiannual plans; Alien Species; Commission results of control plan on labelling of fishery products; SCOPAFF; Food crises workshop; Mislabelling

Analysis of the training needs of the Northern Ireland seafood industry

By Tegen Mor Fisheries Consultants

The next NGO priority: An initial review of developments, implications, and practical responses

This report focuses on emerging priorities for NGOs. It considers major industry impacts arising from NGO areas of focus and sets out areas where a response from industry and Seafish may be required and identifies areas of potential collaboration.

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