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Versión en Español a abajo Chile is taking a big step forward in the fight against illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing with the Chilean Senate’s approval of the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service (SERNAPESCA) modernization project. These new regulations modernize SERNAPESCA, giving it more power to fight illegal fishing and punish the supply chain players who trade in—and profit from—illegally caught seafood. The enforcement capabilities are coupled with a mandate that increases transparency in access to the Vessel Monitoring System (VMS), and makes…

Versión en Español a abajo by Iván Greco, Research Associate at FOF We’ve been writing about our novel co-design process with the Chilean caletas (fishing coves) involved in the design and demonstration phase of the Fisheries Development Model in our previous blogs. We are proud to be collaborating with these fishing communities, and wanted to take the time to introduce them here. We have already begun to work with three of the caletas and associated actors to co-design innovations for the common hake fishery: El…

The organizations working on seafood sustainability and traceability are many, and they’re mighty. Historically, though, there’s been little support for them to work together to solve problems and amplify their efforts. This siloing—common across the nonprofit and NGO spaces—means that it’s harder for us to share our learnings, spend time working together, and collaborate for impact. Fortunately, the tide is turning: building on years of seafood traceability expertise, FishWise, Future of Fish, the Global Food Traceability Center, and World Wildlife Fund came together in…

My name is Emily Liang and I’m currently studying Aquaculture and Marine Resource Management as a Masters student at Wageningen University and Research (in Holland). I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California but am thankful to have my ethnic roots in Taiwan where some of the most delicious food in the world resides. While I’ve grown up only a 20 minute drive from the shores of the West Coast, my love and complete awe for the ocean didn’t begin until I was…

By Marah Hardt, Research Director The problem of overfishing and declining resources in the ocean is very serious—that is why introducing a little bit of play can be critical to designing effective solutions. Over the past two weeks, we’ve had the privilege of working with three different fisher caletas along Chile’s central coast to ideate solutions to the declining hake fishery and the poor pricing that threatens the livelihoods of these fishers and their communities. This was the third workshop in a series of…

Chris has been an active contributor to the management and research of Peruvian small scale fisheries in the regions of Piura and Tumbes. With NGOs, private tourism businesses, and government programs he has worked in over 30 fishing communities on pressing governance issues such as moving fishermen to legality through the process of formalization or creating fishing cooperatives for the direct sale of product to higher end markets. Chris also contributed to the declaration of artisanal fishing by sail as Peruvian cultural heritage and…

by Iván Greco, Research Associate at Future of Fish Versión en Español incluída Chilean Artisanal Hake Value chains 101 It seems easy in theory, but the practice of sourcing seafood is incredibly complicated. How does fish travel from the water to the consumer's table? Usually the description of that path is called the value or supply chain, which includes everyone from those who extract it, to those who transport it. There are also other "nodes"; the ones that sell it to wholesale markets and…

Helen Packer is joining Future of Fish as an intern in the Fall of 2018. Helen holds a BSc in Marine Biology and an MSc in Marine Resource Management. In 2014, Helen joined Anova Food USA, managing its Fishing & Living program, a sustainability initiative that works collaboratively with supply chains, NGOs and governments to improve social and environmental practices in the tuna industry. In September 2016, Helen started a PhD at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada) exploring responsible business practices in the seafood industry,…

Author: Momo Kochen Versión en Español incluída Our last installment from Chile told you about the intricate way we worked to choose the caletas with whom we would partner during the coming months of what we term the “Design and Demo” phase of Future of Fish’s Fishery Development Model. We started this work back in May of 2017, and we’ve met with so many amazing caletas, but we’ve had the difficult task of narrowing it down to four to work with at this current…

by Iván Greco, Research Associate at Future of Fish Por Iván Greco Investigador Asociado de Future of Fish (Versión en Español incluída) The last time we wrote to you from Chile, we were at the beginning of our Design and Demonstration phase (D&D) of our Fisheries Development Model (FDM), visiting fisher's caletas (coves in Spanish) along the Central part of the beautiful Chilean coasts, and, of course, prolonging our romance with the Pacific Ocean and its communities. During these visits, we carried out our…

A relatively new acronym in the seafood realm but one we may find easier to remember; SALT or the Seafood Alliance for Legality and Traceability is “a global alliance for knowledge exchange and action to promote legal and sustainable fisheries through improved transparency in seafood supply chains”. SALT is a 5 year partnership between USAID, the Walton Family Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and FishWise. SALT just held its last of three datalabs in Bangkok, following one in the United States, and one…

The meeting was brief, but the enthusiasm for innovation was clear. “This is a place where a whirlwind of potential ideas to increase the value of their hake fills me with optimism,” says Iván Greco, Future of Fish Research Associate.  He had arrived in San Pedro de Concón, a fishing caleta two hours away from San Antonio, Chile to meet with the recently elected fishing syndicate leader, Julieta. During the 45 minute chat, Iván had a chance to share some of the findings from…