Introducing RISE: A Roadmap for Improving Seafood Ethics

Businesses are increasingly focused on labor practices in their supply chains. But knowing a problem may exist isn’t the same as addressing it. Some businesses want to understand their risks and make improvements, but aren’t sure how or where to begin. Others are familiar with the issues, but taking on new challenges is especially difficult with limited capacity and in-house expertise.

To support businesses concerned with labor issues, FishWise, with support from the Walmart Foundation, has developed an exciting new tool. The Roadmap for Improving Seafood Ethics (RISE) is a free, open access website featuring a series of steps that companies may take. Each step offers practical tools to help companies implement the recommendations and track progress. RISE also offers connections to real people at organizations with deep expertise in understanding and improving labor practices.

We invite you to RSVP for a FishWise-led session “Sharing an Online Roadmap for Social Responsibility Guidance in the Seafood Industry” at the Seafood Expo North America on March 18, 2019, and participate in the public launch of this free, public-access resource!

In this hands-on, interactive session, participants will:

• See how RISE provides actionable step-by-step guidance
• Learn from Verité and Issara Institute about key topics, like responsible recruitment, worker voice, and risk mitigation
• Hear from industry representatives about how their companies benefit from using the Roadmap
• Have the opportunity to ask questions directly to experts with experience implementing social responsibility with companies