FishWise and Seafood Legacy Renewed Partnership to Promote Human Proper Due Diligence in Seafood Provide Chains

BOSTON, MA.– Sustainable seafood organizations Seafood Legacy and FishWise renewed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) throughout the 2024 Seafood Expo North America in Boston, USA. This ongoing partnership will proceed to strengthen accountable enterprise practices concerning human and labor rights within the Japanese seafood business.

This partnership started in March 2022, and since then, FishWise has supplied technical help and steerage on due diligence practices as Seafood Legacy works to implement modifications all through the Japanese fishing business.

Underneath the brand new MoU, each organizations will proceed to advance social duty and help early adopters in Japan. Leveraging present sources resembling Roadmap for Enhancing Seafood Ethics (RISE), Social Duty Evaluation (SRA), and Social Duty Journey Report, Seafood Legacy could have the instruments to overtake practices within the Japanese seafood business.

Among the many main 2024 initiatives, the partnership will determine alternatives to develop a joint mission in a producer nation the place events can leverage the U.S. and Japan’s shopping for energy.

With an elevated concentrate on human rights points, the persistent and ongoing human and labor rights violations in world seafood provide chains have turn into extra apparent to each customers and producers. Seafood Legacy and FishWise goal to have a significant constructive influence in world provide chains via this partnership by taking a hands-on position in influencing employee safety.

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FishWise is a non-profit sustainable seafood consultancy primarily based in Santa Cruz, CA, that takes a holistic method to sustainability to guard ocean well being and employees’ rights. Providing experience trusted by each labor and human rights and marine conservation organizations, seafood consumers and suppliers, and authorities representatives, FishWise provides a spread of companies that empower companies and a various neighborhood of collaborators to guide the transition to a sustainable, ethically accountable seafood business. Please go to FishWise.org and comply with FishWise’s work on Instagram, Fb, LinkedIn, and Twitter for extra info.

Seafood Legacy Co., Ltd. is a social enterprise primarily based in Tokyo that gives sustainable seafood consulting and platforming companies to Japanese seafood companies and the federal government. Seafood is a logo of the connections between marine ecosystems, marine economics, and regional communities, and our function is to make sure that it stays considerable for future generations. Seafood Legacy additionally strategically networks seafood companies and NGOs to foster pre-competitive platforms to resolve mutual points that varied stakeholders face in Japan and the world. https://seafoodlegacy.com/en/

Contact: Danielle Williams, FishWise Communications Supervisor
Electronic mail: d.williams@fishwise.org