Sustainability within the
seafood supply chain:
what does it mean ?
Presenter: Clare Winkel
NCS International Pty Ltd
M: 0414 552 270
E: [email protected]
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www.ncsi.com.au
Sustainability
• Environmental
• Social
• Economic
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• 3rd party reporting
• External standards
• Self monitoring reporting
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3rd party reporting:
• NGO name and shame
• WWF
• Lists
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External standards:
• Environmental sustainability
• Social sustainability
• Voluntary
• Imposed
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Environmental sustainability stds:
• Fishery management
• Eco labels
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“The use of clear product and fishery ecolabels would
greatly assist retail buyers to understand the complex
Australian Government approach to fishery
management, the National ESD framework and
Ecological Risk Assessment for the Effects of Fishing
used by AFMA.”
John Susman, Seafood International, December 2007
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“We must ensure that the social concerns are included
in the …… decision making process and that the
Australian risk based approach is very good but would
be difficult to make it work within a multi nation
management system (as in the EU). But the
Australian approach may be the only way to tackle the
problem that has both accountability and delegation to
the local region and is still audited and measured.”
Dr Degnbol
Scientific Advisor to the European Union
Commission’s Directorate of Fisheries & Maritime
Affairs, World Seafood Congress 2007.
Sustainability
Environmental sustainability stds:
• ISO 14064 Green house gas
verification
• Corporate social responsibility
guidelines for implementation:
United Nations, Australian & British .
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Social sustainability stds:
• ETI base code
• SA 8000
• SEDEX: Supplier Ethical Data Exchange
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Social sustainability stds:
• Fair Trade labelling
• Fair Fish
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Retailer social conduct audits:
• Worker conditions
• Pay rates
• Equal opportunity
• Gender equity
• Environmental
• Workplace democracy
• Animal welfare
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Self Reporting:
• Guidelines:
Global Reporting Initiative:
Sustainability reporting
framework
• Why ?
• Who ?
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Is this ethical?:
• Fly miles stickers on capsicums
grown in heated glass houses in
Ireland.
• Trade barriers to small fruit growers
in Kenya and NZ.
• Fair Trade profit made by European
retailers.
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Next wave rolling to the shore:
• Value chain sustainability.
• Sphere of influence and control.
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Any Questions ?
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