Year: 2018
Japanese Soul Food: Japan Progresses Towards More Sustainable Seafood
By Traci Linder, Senior Project Manager photo credit: Andrew Simoni The year 2020 represents something different to each of [...]
How FishWise is Tackling IUU Fishing
By Lindsay Jennings, M.P.S., Senior Project Manager Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing is a long-standing issue that is [...]
FishWise and Positively Groundfish Form New Partnership
FishWise is pleased to announce a new partnership with Positively Groundfish – a unique multi-sector association based in Brookings, [...]
10 Ways to Celebrate National Seafood Month
In honor of national seafood month, we asked our staff of seafood experts to put together some of their [...]
FishWise Business Services
This document outlines the ways that a business may partner with FishWise. FishWise promotes the health and recovery of [...]
Mayor of Santa Cruz Proclaims October 5 “FishWise Day”
FishWise was honored by the Mayor of the City of Santa Cruz with the following proclamation: Whereas [...]
Producer Partner Spotlight: Riverence
FishWise is excited to announce a new producer partnership with Riverence. “Reverence for the river” – this is [...]
Red Fish, Blue Fish, Which Fish?: What we can learn from the FAO’s report on food fraud in the fisheries sector
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) released a report this year analyzing food fraud [...]
Supporting Worker Voice and Promoting Social Responsibility at the SeaWeb Seafood Summit
Feature image: Jen Cole, Jittrinee Kaeojinda, Art Prapha, and Dominique Gautier at the “Building Socially Responsible Seafood Supply Chains [...]
Welcome Oliviya Wyse!
We’re thrilled to have Oliviya Wyse join the FishWise team as an intern within our Traceability Division. Oliviya is [...]
Introducing The Online Vendor Survey 2.0
By: Elsie Tanadjaja FishWise launched a new version of our Online Vendor Survey (OVS) in mid-October last year. This survey [...]
Welcome Amy West!
I am Amy West and I joined FishWise in March of 2018 as the program manager for the USAID initiative, Seafood [...]
FishWise at International Forum on Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing
During May 3-4 Mark Richardson attended the 11th International Forum on Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing hosted by Chatham [...]
Slowing Down Seafood
By Chase Martin, Communications Project Manager On a Saturday afternoon in a fish processing warehouse on the docks of [...]
The Links Between IUU Fishing, Human Rights, and Traceability
Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing threatens marine ecosystems and global food security. This unsustainable practice and the networks [...]
Innovation Forum London: How Business Can Tackle Modern Slavery and Forced Labor
By Cora Sorenson The billboards outside the heavily touristed Westminster Abbey in London let me know that modern slavery [...]
Policies and Recommendations to Improve the Safety of Fisheries Observers Deployed in Tuna Fisheries
On September 10th 2015, a Taiwanese fishing vessel conducted a transshipment of tuna to the Panamanian flagged refrigerated vessel MV [...]
Shipping off to Sumbawa
FishWise’s networks and activities span the globe, and this month’s blog feature is no exception. Senior Project Manager Erin [...]
5th Annual Global Wave Conference
By Meg Songer, Project Manager The forum, organized by Save the Waves Coalition and Surfrider Foundation and hosted by [...]
Industry Toolkit Provides Tools for Building Traceability into Seafood Supply Chains
Looking to take the first steps in implementing electronic traceability? Attempting to calculate your ROI from adopting traceability practices? [...]
FishWise and Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) release a new report on FAD-free Tuna Verification Best Practices
Increasing demand for tuna products claiming to be harvested without the use of fish aggregated devices (i.e. FAD-free) has [...]
From the Inside Out: Stories of Social Capital in Seafood
A new mini-documentary, From the Inside Out: Stories of Social Capital in Seafood, explores the concept of social capital and [...]
Discovering seafood traceability solutions at the Seafood Expo North America
A collaboration of four NGOs with strong presence in the seafood traceability space–FishWise, Future of Fish, the IFT’s Global [...]
Inspiring Innovation in Human Rights and Responsible Sourcing: Issara Institute Global Forum
We sat in collective silence in a Bangkok conference room, listening intently to the Thai, Burmese, and English translations [...]