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Seafish briefing - Organisations addressing labour issues in the fishing and aquaculture sector. April 2016.

Since approximately 2006, various concerns regarding abuses of workers engaged in the seafood industry have steadily attracted more attention, from the media and civil society advocacy groups. The main concern has been reports of coercive treatment of certain categories of both sea and land-based workers, through abusive labour and recruitment practices variously referred to as slavery or slavery-like practices, forced and bonded labour, human trafficking, as well as serious forms of child labour. This has led to more monitoring, and a wide range of governmental, inter-governmental and NGO initiatives to address the concerns. There have been a number of studies into the scale of the issue but further study is required in order to determine the international scale of human rights and labour abuses in the seafood industry. This briefing note: details some of the key reviews that have looked at the scale of labour issues in the fishing and seafood sectors; and lists the organisations addressing labour rights in the fishing sector. This document was originally produced in March 2015 and was updated in April 2016.

Report of the Study Group on Electrical Trawling (SGELECTRA) April 2013

A report of the Study Group on Electrical Trawling (SGELECTRA).

dagfinalminutes_020419.pdf

march_accounts_2016.pdf

Risk Assessment for Sourcing Seafood (RASS) profile; brown crab (Cancer pagurus) landed in Newlyn

This document is a summary of information on Brown crab (Cancer pagurus) targeted using pots/traps by vessels which land into Newlyn Harbour, Cornwall and is risk assessed using Seafish’s RASS scoring Guidance version 2.

Market Insight Factsheet: Chilled Seafood in Multiple Retail (2019)

Detail behind the performance of the chilled seafood sector including historic and current sector trends, key performance indicators (KPIs) and chilled segment and species performance.

Final ACIG minutes 14 April 2016

Final minutes of the Aquaculture Common Issues Group meeting held in London on 14 April 2016.

Seafish Annual Review of Feed Grade Fish Stocks August 2009

Annual Review of the feed grade fish stocks used to produce fishmeal and fish oil for the UK market This review focuses on recent independent documentary assessments of these stocks. These are predominantly published by the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). It covers sandeel, sprat, capelin, herring, blue whiting, Norway pout, anchovy, jack mackerel and sardine.

Ecological Risk Assessment of the effects of fishing for South West fisheries; ICES Divisions VII e,f,g & h; Supporting information. Publication Reference Number SR672

This document provides supporting information for an assessment of the ecological effects of commercial fishing in waters off Southwest England (ICES Divisions VII e,f,g & h).

Project Inshore - Stage 3 Strategic Sustainability North Eastern Inshore Fisheries & Conervation Authority

This report presents stage 3 of Project Inshore where findings of stage 1’s data gathering on fisheries within each IFCA and the results of stage 2’s MSC pre-assessment conducted for fisheries around England’s coast (involving over 400 different species, stock and gear combinations) are considered to provide a Strategic Sustainability Review tailored to the North Eastern IFCA.

UK Seafood Supply Chain Overview: January-March 2023

This report takes a high-level view of the whole of the UK seafood supply chain to explore factors impacting UK seafood markets, seafood business operations and consumer behaviour during January to March 2023.

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