Tag social responsibility

The Financial Transparency Coalition reported that IUU fishing and forced labor often go hand-in-hand and that greater transparency is key. 

An International Labour Organization technical meeting affirmed that aquaculture has enormous potential to feed the world, but there are challenges to harnessing its full power. 

Seafood companies are not only striving to become sustainable and environmentally friendly; they are grappling with social responsibility issues that grab international headlines and rightfully force all links of the supply chain to button up their operations and put human rights above all else. 

In previewing the SeaWeb Seafood Summit, the Advocate examines human rights in the supply chain and the people who advance solutions in rooting out worker abuses. In part one of a three-part series, Environmental Justice Foundation co-founder Steve Trent talks about linking environmental security with human rights. 

If Day 1 of GOAL 2015 was all about defense, the following day of the aquaculture industry’s leading global conference was about offense — exuding confidence that farming fish is the way to feed future generations, and determining how to tell the world its story. 

In a study of Norwegian consumers asked to evaluate pangasius fillets, the extrinsic cues corporate social responsibility, endorsement and country of origin had different effects on evaluative variables.