Global Tuna Alliance Tuna 2020 Traceability Declaration Progress Report
Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (IUU) The estimated annual losses Almost 30% Up to 32% due to diversion of fish from the legitimate trade system is Of the world’s fisheries of seafood imported into are overexploited the U.S. is caught illegally . USD 26-50 billion Consumers often cannot tell if the fish they eat was caught legally. Sources: Food and Agriculture Organization; Science Advances 26 Feb 2020
Forming the Tuna 2020 Traceability Declaration Background Objective Signatories 66 companies 6 governments • • To leverage the power of partnerships to Supporting the goals of SDG 14.4 to support achieving the Sustainable eliminate IUU • Development Goals (SDGs) By improving traceability and transparency • World Economic Forum convened this to enable scaling of existing sustainability 21 civil society organizations declaration to commit to eliminating Illegal, and social initiatives • Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing Using partnerships to achieve a platform • Launched at the UN Ocean Conference 2017 effect of collaborative effort Using the positive power of public-private collaboration to catalyze the elimination of IUU
Tuna 2020 Traceability Declaration Commitments Commitment to Commitment to a Socially Tuna Traceability Commitment Environmentally Responsible Government Partnership Responsible Tuna Supply Chain Tuna Sources All tuna products in our supply We pledge to eliminate any We pledge to buy products We call on governments to chains will be fully traceable form of slavery and ensure with: take actions needed to: to the vessel and trip dates , suppliers at least meet • Robust science-based • Implement Harvest and that this information will minimum social standards in management plans , including Strategies for all tuna stocks be disclosed upon request at management practices as harvest strategies that can under the jurisdiction of each the Point of Sale either on the recommended in the Universal maintain stocks at, or restore tuna RFMO by 2020, that will packaging or via an online Declaration of Human Rights them at least to, levels which ensure sustainably managed system. and the International Labour can produce maximum tuna fisheries in line with Organization’s Conventions sustainable yield; and SDG Target 14.4. and Recommendations. • Measures to ensure that • Establish systems to identify impacts of fisheries on the and restrict illegal seafood environment are sustainable , through government-led including bycatch mitigation measures on traceability and techniques. transparency. • Build capacity to establish and manage information systems to account for domestic and international fishing fleets, landings, enforcement and trade of seafood products, in line with the FAO Code of Conduct and the Port State Measure Agreement.
The Global Tuna Alliance (GTA) • An independent group of retailers and supply-chain companies, working to ensure that tuna ultimately meets the highest standards of environmental performance and social responsibility. • The GTA was established in response to RFMOs not managing tuna fisheries properly; impacting supply chain commitments • Fully-funded by the World Economic Forum’s Friends of Ocean Action to implement the Tuna 2020 Traceability Declaration commitments
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Tuna 2020 Traceability Declaration Progress Survey Online Progress Survey • Oct 19 – Jan 20 • 35 Company responses • 34 Useable responses • 63% return rate
Who responded to the progress survey? Company Response Company Response Company Response Ahold Delhaize New England Seafood International Asociación Nacional de Armadores de American Albacore Fishing Association Ocean Harvesters Operative Buques Atuneros Congeladores American Tuna Organización de Productores de (A.N.A.B.A.C.) Anova Food Grandes Atuneros Congeladores Avila Prima Intra Makmur Bolton Alimentari & Grupo Conservas (OPAGAC) Confederación Española de Pesca Garavilla Orkla AS & ABBA Seafood AB Coop Norge SA Bumble Bee Foods & Clover Leaf Seafoods Princes Dongwon Industries Co. Ltd Coop Danmark AS PT. Aneka Tuna Indonesia Eroski Coop Sweden SALICA INDUSTRIA ALIMENTARIA Eurofish Trading AG Culinary Collaborations LLC Simplot Australia Pty. Ltd Fisho CVC Capital Partners Finance Limited Spar Group South Africa Jadran Group Fish Is Life Sodexo Liancheng Overseas Fishery FOODTECH JSC Tesco Negocios Industriales Real S.A. Frinsa del Noroeste Thai Union Group PCL (Bellotta; S Group General Tuna Corporation Chicken of the Sea; Genova Seafoods; Sea Value Iceland Seafood Barraclough SERVIGRUP John West; King Oscar; Marvo; Jealsa Rianxeira SA South Seas Tuna Parmentier; Petit Navire; Sealect; Lovering Foods Starkist Foods Mareblu; Rugen Fisch Marks & Spencer The Colruyt Group Tri Marine Group Mercadona SA Thunnus Overseas Group Woolworths Holdings Ltd METRO Wholesale & Food Specialist Tuna Conservation Group World Wise Foods Company Unil AS
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Who responded to the progress survey? 2 2 7 7 14 9
Benefits/Liabilities from Signing Declaration Expected Business benefits or liabilities from signing on to or achieving the Tuna 2020 Traceability Declaration Reduction in revenue Decline in supplier relationship and interaction Increase in cost I don't know Other Improvement in supplier relationship and interaction Increase in employee engagement and motivation Positive publicity Increase in customer awareness and brand awareness 0 5 10 15 20 25
TRACEABILITY SOCIAL RESPONSIBILTY ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY Which best describes your activities and Which best describes your activities and If you are a buyer have you made a pledge to source from tuna fisheries that have achievements in meeting the traceability achievements in meeting the social commitment. responsibility commitment. implemented the following to achieve the Environmental Responsibility commitment? 001 Signatory Reference Number: Tuna products in our supply chain are 3 rd Our tuna supply chain is free Robust science-based management traceable to vessel and trip dates of any form of slavery. party plans, including harvest strategies that Seafood chain presence can maintain stocks at, or restore them Our tuna supply chain is free Not 3 rd Tuna products in our supply chain are at least to, levels which can produce Fishery Processor Distributor of any form of slavery. party traceable to fisheries, but not to vessel maximum sustainable yield and trip dates We have information that our tuna Measures to ensure that impacts of supply chain is mostly free of slavery. We are in the process of making tuna fisheries on the environment are (We are defining mostly free as 80% or products in our supply chain traceable sustainable, including bycatch more) Retail Food Other mitigation techniques. Tuna products in our supply chain are service We have information that our tuna not yet traceable and we do not have Both supply chain is partly free of slavery. plans to do so yet. We have just begun in trying to find out the social standards of the suppliers of What percentage of the tuna you source/sell is our tuna products, and do not yet have certified by schemes that are internationally Is the traceable information from the question enough visibility to answer this O R M F A R above disclosed to the consumer at point of recognized by the Global Sustainable Seafood question. E N sale? P Initiative (GSSI). C we do not know yet if our tuna supply E L chain has any slavery. L 10% -% A - % What proportion of your suppliers of R YES WORKING NO tuna products at least meet minimum social E ON IT standards in management practices as V GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIPS recommended in the Universal Declaration of O Human Rights and the International Labour Do these descriptions above apply to some or Organization’s Conventions and In order to meet the government partnerships all of the tuna products in your supply chain? Recommendations. commitment have you engaged with and supported advocacy efforts for: the development of harvest strategies and harvest -% TRACEABILITY: control rules ratification and SOCIAL -% implementation of PSMA RESPONSIBILITY: ratification and implementation of ILO ENVIRONMENTAL -% Working in Fishing SUSTAINABILITY: Convention None <80% >80% ALL We do Begun to Some All All 3rd the development of Global GOVERNMENT not investigat party -% Record of Fishing Vessels PARTNERSHIPS: track e verified
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