Traceability

Seafood traceability is the capacity to follow a product from catch or harvest through processing, trade, and retail, recording the who, where, when, and how of each step. It is the supply-chain counterpart to at-sea monitoring: catch documentation schemes and key data elements let importers verify that fish were legally caught and accurately reported. The EU IUU catch certificate and the US Seafood Import Monitoring Program are the two largest regulatory drivers of seafood traceability.