In the wake of new investigations uncovering forced labor in the seafood sector in India, China, and North Korea, a leading industry group is urging supermarkets, restaurants, and other businesses to accelerate efforts to eradicate human and labor rights abuses from their supply chains. …
Sustainable seafood organizations Seafood Legacy and FishWise renewed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) during the 2024 Seafood Expo North America in Boston, USA. This ongoing partnership will continue to strengthen responsible business practices regarding human and labor rights in the Japanese seafood industry. …
For the second year in a row, Hy-Vee Inc. and FishWise, a non-profit sustainable seafood consultancy, have completed a tuna fishing vessel transparency activity. Tuna are harvested globally, often in remote ocean regions where illegal fishing and human and labor rights abuses can occur without detection. The fishing vessel transparency activity is designed to shed light on the complexity of the company’s fresh, frozen, and canned tuna assortments. …
Jenny Barker has been named the new executive director of FishWise, a sustainable seafood consultancy focused on environmental impact and decent work. Barker has led the organization’s international work under the Seafood Alliance for Legality and Traceability (SALT) for the past five years. …
Hy-Vee, Inc. and its wholly-owned distribution subsidiary Perishable Distributors of Iowa (PDI), alongside non-profit sustainable seafood consultancy FishWise, recently achieved a groundbreaking milestone in seafood transparency by publicly disclosing a complete list of fishing vessels supplying the Midwest retailer’s fresh, frozen and canned private label tuna assortments. …
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