October 14, 2020 — The following was released by the Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative:
The development of a seafood-specific social benchmark tool by the Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative (SSCI) of The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) and the Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative (GSSI) continues.
After a first public consultation on At-Sea Operations criteria over the summer, SSCI launched on September 29, 2020 a 60-day public consultation to review Primary Production criteria. The criteria, developed by industry leaders, experts and stakeholders, cover social and scheme management requirements specifically for third-party social compliance programmes evaluating land-based agricultural and aquaculture activities.
To review the criteria applicability to aquaculture activities, an Aquaculture Expert Panel, comprised of GSSI Partners representatives, was set up by GSSI.
All stakeholders involved in aquaculture value chains are invited to partake in the consultation until December 1, 2020 on the SSCI website where they can view benchmarking documents and leave comments. Feedback can also be emailed to ssci@theconsumergoodsforum.com.
Leave your comments by December 1, 2020.
Provide your input on the SSCI website, or send your additional comments to ssci@theconsumergoodsforum.com.