Founded in 2021, Skretting is a member of the Global Roundtable on Marine Ingredients. The initiative aims at taking action based around the framework of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Additionally, it works to provide a single value chain contact point to contribute to existing platforms aimed at ensuring sustainable management of fisheries providing marine ingredients.
The Roundtable will foster and support precompetitive efforts by members to:
- Identify and agree on ways to further improve the availability of sustainable marine ingredient materials.
- Investigate the potential of new raw material sources, such as mesopelagic species and others.
- Catalyse and support existing and new fisheries improvement projects.
- Understand and address urgent social issues and enhance social responsibility in key fisheries and regions.
- Maintain a global overview of the state of the resources and industry.
The first priority for the Roundtable is West Africa, where production of marine ingredients (both direct and through by-products) has grown dramatically over the last decade, and a number of economic and social challenges have been identified. Southeast Asia is another geographic priority, where multispecies fisheries pose unique management challenges, and some fisheries are tainted by human rights and labour abuses. The Roundtable will also address other important topics such as life cycle assessments and potential new raw material sources.