TRACEABILITY POLICY
Sea Delight recognizes the importance of traceability in seafood supply chains for verifying the legality, integrity, and quality of our products. We are dedicated to continually improving our traceability practices for more robust tracking of products from the source to our customers. We are also actively working with our suppliers to ensure they are part of traceable, transparent, and legal supply chains. Our suppliers must be able to share documentation to demonstrate legality and traceability to the source when requested. We are committed to transparency in our practices and will report publicly on our progress towards this policy annually.
COMMITMENTS
Traceability Commitments: Sea Delight will continue working towards industry best practices in traceability including standardized data collection for seafood products, supply chain traceability demonstrations, and engagement in multi-stakeholder traceability dialogues and initiatives. We will publicly report on our annual progress regarding these efforts. Currently, Sea Delight:
Continues to improve data collection by building upon work underway with our tuna, mahi mahi, swordfish, crab and snapper sources by December 31, 2020.
Encourages collaboration within the seafood industry to promote interoperability of traceability systems.
Actively tracks developments of important emerging topics related to traceability, and anti-IUU measures on an ongoing basis.
Sea Delight tuna suppliers in Vietnam followed the VN Tuna FIP traceability system and continues to cooperate with VINATUNA Vietnam Tuna FIP Traceability measures.
TRACEABILITY ACHIEVEMENTS
As an ongoing Working Group 1 member of the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability (GDST) Sea Delight supported the GDST in creating approved Key Data Elements (KDEs) for an interoperable traceability system.
Sea Delight inspired the winning team at The GDST Traceability Hackaton held in June 2019 in Bangkok. Using the Sea Delight-designed Photo Observer App “COPPA”. IT experts created a “Photographic Protocol App” called “Blueprint” that solved problems relating to establishing and verifying important traceability Key Data Elements.
The COPPA Crew Observer Photographic Application sea trials were completed in October 2019 and will be used to expand catch and traceability data collection in the VN tuna fishery in 2020.
Sea Delight has designed and tested a new traceability system for the VIETNAM Handline Swordfish FIP. The concept was approved by VINATUNA in Oct. 2019
Sea Delight began planning projects with a major traceability technology vendor to begin using their traceability system in 3 fisheries targeting 3 different species. The system will be compatible with the GDST Interoperable Universal Traceability KDEs.
