Stories

Discovering seafood traceability solutions at the Seafood Expo North America

Feb 06, 2018
A collaboration of four NGOs with strong presence in the seafood traceability space--FishWise, Future of Fish, the IFT’s Global Food Traceability Center, and WWF--will be leading a seafood traceability workshop at the Seafood Expo North America (SENA) on what is required for implementing seafood traceability systems. This hands-on training session will present attendees with available…

Corruption and Complexity in Chilean Fisheries

Dec 19, 2017
*** Más abajo, versión en español *** “It’s complicated.” When we began researching the common hake fishery in Chile, that’s what we were told, again and again. Now, a new exposé has helped highlight just how complicated solving sustainable seafood can get. This fall, the Chilean investigative journalism program Misión Encubierta (‘Covert Mission’) aired "Algo Huele Mal" (“Something Smells…

Q&A with Iván Greco

Dec 18, 2017
Touched by Argentina’s tragic social protests of December 2001, Iván Greco set out to study real-world economics to better understand the roles and responsibilities of economic development. From cities to rural areas and back again, Iván has described urban segregations in Uppsala neighborhoods in Sweden (where he got his Master's in Sustainable Development) and socio-environmental…

Q&A with Peter Battisti

Dec 18, 2017
Earlier this summer, our Future of Fish founder Cheryl Dahle handed the Executive Director reins over to Peter Battisti. To mark the occasion, we asked Peter and about his vision for the organization and what we might expect from Future of Fish and the seafood industry in the coming years. Q: What do you see…

Getting our Feet Wet: Launching a Traceability RFP Process in Belize

Dec 18, 2017
Want to implement electronic traceability in seafood supply chains? Grab a hair net, some rubber boots, and tie on a smock. Rather than beginning with the technology, our Global Operations team can share that transitioning seafood supply chains from data-poor to data-rich starts with getting your feet wet—literally.   This is how we found ourselves…