Seafood authority, Seafish, is commissioning a project to assess the ethical issues that could now or in the future impact on the UK seafood supply chain.
The project will encompass all species landed into, imported to the UK and ultimately sold to UK consumers - so all country suppliers to the UK seafood market, as well as domestic landings, wild caught and farmed species, different sectors of the supply chain and all aspects of unethical practice.
Michaela Archer, Seafish, said: “For the purposes of this project we use the term ethics for issues relating to labour and human rights. This includes slavery, bonded and forced labour, child labour and health and safety across the whole supply chain, be that on land or at sea.”
Seafish said that the reason for the project is that there are growing concerns regarding unethical practices within the global seafood market of which impacts are wide reaching.
“The intention is that this will cover mapping the issues, by country and species and, if data is available, by fishery. We also want to horizon scan for emerging and future issues,” added Ms Archer.
The final report will be presented to the Seafood Ethics Common Language Group created by Seafish in July 2014 to facilitate information and knowledge exchange across a whole range of stakeholders.
Seafish is looking for applicants to undertake this project, ideally with expertise in work of this nature and a track record in delivering projects to a high standard.
The deadline for submitting tenders is 5pm on 23 January 2015.
