Seafood Traceability: A Key to Sustainable Livelihoods, Durable Trade and Secure Communities

A statement by members of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Oceans calling for a global 'bait to plate' traceability system to combat overfishing and illegal fishing.

• Seafood is a highly transnational commerce where nearly 40% of fish enter international markets, and fish exports provide more net earnings for developing countries than the combined exports of coffee, cocoa, bananas, rubber, meat, and rice.
• Marine fishing faces a sustainability crisis, with over two-thirds of fish stocks fished up to or beyond biological limits and at least 20% of the catch resulting from illegal, unreported, or unregulated fishing.
• Current global systems for tracing fish products from origin to consumer are underdeveloped, creating an urgent need for harmonized, verifiable, and business-smart traceability solutions to prevent the degradation of a valuable food source.
• The signatories recommend that industry stakeholders, civil society, and global policy-makers collaborate to implement a global system ensuring wild-caught seafood is legal, healthy, fully traceable, and accurately labeled.

APA

World Economic Forum (n.d.). Seafood Traceability: A Key to Sustainable Livelihoods, Durable Trade and Secure Communities. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GAC_SeafoodTraceability_2013.pdf

Chicago

World Economic Forum. Seafood Traceability: A Key to Sustainable Livelihoods, Durable Trade and Secure Communities. n.d. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GAC_SeafoodTraceability_2013.pdf.

Wikipedia

{{cite press release |author=World Economic Forum |title=Seafood Traceability: A Key to Sustainable Livelihoods, Durable Trade and Secure Communities |url=http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GAC_SeafoodTraceability_2013.pdf |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@misc{worldeconomicforumndseafood, author = {{World Economic Forum}}, title = {{Seafood Traceability: A Key to Sustainable Livelihoods, Durable Trade and Secure Communities}}, publisher = {World Economic Forum}, url = {http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GAC_SeafoodTraceability_2013.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }