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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…

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…

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…

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…

Part 2 of our series “From Management to Markets” Read Part 1 Here We last left you in Peru where our team explored two fishing communities with different cultural histories and supply chains. Both of these fishing communities had introduced self-imposed closures and put mechanisms in place to reduce unregulated and open access fishing practices in order to preserve their resources and improve community livelihoods. As part of our fishery development model we take a comprehensive look at value chains and markets. We immerse…

Part I of our series “From Management to Markets” Only a few hours from Lima (depending on the traffic!) lies Ancon, a small fishing port turned tourist destination, where local fishers have broken with a long-standing open-access model to set fishing closures and other self-enforced regulations as a way to preserve their resource. Further south in Marcona, another group of fishers drafted the visionary PPD (in Spanish “Programa Piloto Demostrativo: Manejo y Explotación de Recursos Bentónicos”), a powerful plan for self-management that divides up…

When the howling blizzard dropped two feet of snow on Boston, the resultant large drifts blocking the sidewalks were a perfect metaphor for our Seafood Expo North America panel topic that day: the barriers to seafood traceability technology adoption…and the strategies that can overcome them. Our colleagues from the Seafood Traceability Collaboration, along with special guest, Roxanne Nanninga from Thai Union, kicked off the session by sharing stories from the field regarding the stuck points they encountered and the potential strategies for combating such challenges in seafood traceability…

Our last trip to Belize took our Global Implementation Manager, Kaitlyn Sephton, and a film crew from University of Washington's Communication Leadership Masters program on a fishing trip with members of the National Fisher's Co-Op in Belize City. This photobook follows them on their trip to make a mini documentary about the co-op we've been working with and the fishers who make their living on the water.