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Last month US Customs and Border Protection hosted its annual trade summit, a multi-day stakeholder convening that covers all things trade governance. In panel after panel I was shocked to see one topic raised more often than drug trafficking, more than human trafficking, more than gold or counterfeit goods: illegal
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Last week, we openly mocked your spreadsheet(s); this week, we’re doubling down with another tool to help you transition away from the tyranny of Larry’s Excel doc riddled with macros. (Sorry, Larry.) TL;DR Sandbar 🏖️ is a playground that helps people freely validate whether our API is
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Never hunt for due diligence information again. Validated, simplified fisheries data is now available at your fingertips. Goldfish is thrilled to introduce our latest innovation, a highly user-friendly API that will revolutionize how stakeholders interact with fisheries data. This cutting-edge GraphQL API packages the best of our web application, leveraging
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This is part of our series to help seafood professionals, newcomers and enthusiasts navigate the complexities of sourcing data. For more, read about species, vessel identifiers and harvest areas. For as long as humans have lived near water we have been fishers, and for as long as we have been
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This is part of our series to help seafood professionals, newcomers and enthusiasts navigate the complexities of sourcing data. For more, read about species and vessel identifiers. If watching a fishing vessel slowly disappear into the mist doesn't make you wonder "which management area are they headed
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This is the second installment of our series to help seafood professionals and enthusiasts navigate the complexities of sourcing data. For more, see our post on species. Keeping track of fishing vessels through supply chains is increasingly important for trade. The United States, European Union and quite a few additional
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This is the first installment of a short series to help seafood professionals and enthusiasts navigate the complexities of sourcing data. Thousands of finfish, shellfish, invertebrate and marine mammal species are served around the world from everyday meals to once-in-a-lifetime celebrations. Thanks to the sophistication of modern supply chains, much
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The Departments of Commerce, Treasury, and Justice are putting the world on notice - US sanctions are not just a domestic issue. Here's what seafood supply chains need to know.
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Last December, President Biden expanded upon a 2022 Executive Order banning select US imports from Russia–including seafood–to now encompass Russian-origin exports to the US from any country. Given their shared border and extensive processing capacity China has frequently served as an intermediary for Russian seafood en route to
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Don't say we didn’t warn you about this one! Starting later this month, US imports of red snapper will have to include the name, flag and fishing permit information for all contributing harvest vessels—regardless of their size. Until now, NOAA’s Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP)
On December 22, 2023 President Biden updated his previous Executive Order banning imports of Russian seafood to the US because, frankly, the 2022 version wasn't working. The new order became effective immediately which meant that some implementing measures needed to be put in place right away. Here’s
We'll break down the seafood requirements in President Biden's second Executive Order on banning Russian seafood imports and discuss what to expect moving forward.
Update: On November 16, 2023, NOAA announced an additional two-year delay in the implementation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act Import Provisions. Original post from November 1, 2023: Fifteen years after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) was asked to ban seafood imports under the Marine Mammal Protection Act,
Bombshell reporting this week on China’s abuse of forced labor in seafood has erupted into finger-pointing and calls for action across industry, service providers, advocates and even Congress. A quick aside: This is the important ‘out loud’ part of how any industry evolves and becomes more responsible over time.
Yesterday The New Yorker published two lengthy exposés from indie journalist Ian Urbina on China's labor abuse in the seafood sector (citations below). They claim that 17% of the squid imported to the US was processed by forced laborers in China, some of it harvested by fishers enslaved
In my first year of college I heard that Big Coffee was pushing small roasters out of business and self-imposed a ban, going out of my way (and budget) to buy coffee exclusively from small vendors. One day I asked a barista about their beans and was shocked by the
This morning, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) shared some practical information about their plans for enforcing FSMA 204 on an operational level. Here's our quick breakdown of what you should know: 1. Industry will be able to submit data to the FDA in two ways: 1.
One of the first goals we set at Goldfish was to offer industry a gut check on sourcing data. Anyone working in trade should be able to quickly and easily assess if—for example—bluefin tuna really is harvested in the Solomon Islands using handlines (yes), or off the coast
Last week NOAA issued its biennial report on international fisheries management, which includes a list of nations engaged in Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing. The report chronicles the recent history of enforcement, diplomacy and capacity building between the US and a host of nations on fishery management issues ranging
The US Department of State is all about diplomacy, but did you know that it also has a small but influential role in regulating shrimp imports? It’s true! The department bans imports from foreign shrimp fisheries that do not meet the US standard for protecting sea turtles. Thematically, the
Goldfish asked NOAA for extra time to review its estimate of how much Seafood Import Monitoring Program compliance costs US industry. In the 30-day extension NOAA gave we surveyed brokers and importers to test NOAA’s assumptions as well as our own. Here's what we learned: It takes
