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Skretting sustainability performance 2019

12.2 SeaBOS cooperates with the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability

Skretting is a founding member of the sustainable body Seafood Business for Ocean Stewardship initiative (SeaBOS), which represents 10 of the world’s largest seafood companies. All of these member companies are aligned in the mission to lead a global transformation towards sustainable seafood production and a healthy ocean.

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In 2020, an important undertaking by SeaBOS will be to complete a rapid assessment of how the new ‘GDST Standards and Guidelines for Interoperable Seafood Traceability Systems, Version 1.0’, developed by the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability (GDST) to track seafood products from point of origin to point of sale, can be applied to each member’s business.

GDST was established in 2017 as a seafood industry forum dedicated to drafting the first-ever global standards for seafood traceability. The GDST 1.0 standards were launched in March 2020 after three years of consensus-based work.

With the estimation that illegal fishing accounts for as much as a quarter of all fish caught globally, which in turn fuels overfishing, environmental degradation and human rights abuses, it is essential that seafood supply chains demonstrate where products come from and how they were sourced.

Meanwhile, the aquafeed companies  in SeaBOS are also cooperating with MarinTrust, the B2B certification programme for the production of marine ingredients, to see how the new traceability standard can be incorporated into those businesses, as well as the broader marine ingredients industry.

At the Our Ocean conference in 2019, the Seafood Business for Ocean Stewardship initiative (SeaBOS) announced it has joined the Global Ghost Gear Initiative (GGGI),  the world’s first global platform for tackling abandoned, lost and discarded fishing gear (ALDFG), also known as ghost gear.

As a feed company, Skretting does not conduct any fishing operations. Nevertheless, we are committed to sharing all necessary traceability information with the value chain.

Our CEO, Therese Log Bergjord, will take on the role of Vice Chair of SeaBOS in 2020.

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