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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.

UK Seafood in Numbers - 2021

UK Seafood in Numbers 2021 is an interactive PDF with data on performance of the UK seafood industry in 2021. It covers landings, aquaculture, processing, imports, exports and seafood consumption in the UK.

Chile Seafood Ethics Profile

Seafish commissioned a study to assess the ethical issues impacting on seafood species landed into, and imported to the UK from a wide range of countries. This Cile profile looks at the main seafood products; seafood exports to UK; employment in seafood; human trafficking and forced labour indicators and rankings and research reports; ratification of international human rights and labour instruments; fisheries policy and management structure/administration; control of IUU fishing and related labour abuse; measures to protect migrant fishers; partnerships and improvement projects; and an overall assessment or criteria for overall risk assessment for Chile.

Aquaculture Common Issues Group. News alert. January 2022.

January news alert sent to ACIG subscribers on 13 January 2022.

Selectivity measures and how they could reduce discards

New Zealand Seafood Ethics Profile

Seafish commissioned a study to assess the ethical issues impacting on seafood species landed into, and imported to the UK from a wide range of countries. This New Zealand profile looks at the main seafood products; seafood exports to UK; employment in seafood; human trafficking and forced labour indicators and rankings and research reports; ratification of international human rights and labour instruments; fisheries policy and management structure/administration; control of IUU fishing and related labour abuse; measures to protect migrant fishers; partnerships and improvement projects; and an overall assessment or criteria for overall risk assessment for New Zeland.

Seafish Brussels Update – 6 June 2015

Brussels update of seafood legislation developments, including: Court of Justice ruling regarding labelling such as could mislead the purchaser as to the composition of foodstuffs — List of ingredients; Commission response to a parliamentary question regarding the declaration of the weight of a glazed food inclusive of the glaze (total/gross weight); Oyster mortality; Weaknesses in the Georgian control system for fishery products intended for the EU; Moroccan seafood health certification procedure.

Seafood_Supplies, sustainability and consumer behaviour

Key words: Seafood, consumer, sustainability

Seafood social profile Philippines January2020

This profile is part of a series on the social risks associated with countries that are important to the UK seafood industry. It covers risks related to the production and processing of wild caught and farmed seafood.

Multi-Rig Trawl Systems

Multi-rig trawling developments started in the Gulf of Mexico shrimp fisheries in the early 1950's. Adoption elsewhere in the world was slower, for example most of the Australian shrimp and prawn fisheries did not take up the multi-rig option until the early 1970's.

Seafood Ethics Common Language Group. News alert. October 2022.

October news alert sent to SECLG subscribers on 20 October 2022.

Aquaculture Common Issues Group. News alert. July 2022.

July news alert sent to ACIG subscribers on 19 July 2022.

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