Defining Corporate Duties in Seafood Supply Chains to Prevent IUU Fishing and Labor Rights Abuse on Industrial Fishing Vessels

Seafood 2030/The Walton Family Foundation Programming. FREE AND OPEN TO ALL. The Fisheries Governance Project (FGP) is a funder-practitioner collaboration working to advance solutions that focus on the interconnected governance issues related to IUU fishing and labor rights in marine fisheries. FGP’s markets working group has developed a consolidated set of environmental and labor rights duties that seafood companies must uphold throughout their operations to identify, prevent, and address labor rights abuse and illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing in their seafood supply chains. A growing list of organizations have endorsed the framework, including the Ethical Trading Initiative, The Solidarity Center, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, Oxfam America, International Transport Workers’ Federation, International Corporate Accountability Roundtable, and Serikat Buruh Migran Indonesia.

In this session, working group members will highlight the importance of addressing the interconnected issues related to IUU fishing and labor abuses together and provide an overview of the corporate duties outlined in the document.