FishSource
FishSource is an online resource available to the public that consolidates and summarizes the main scientific and technical information that seafood buyers and their expert advisers need when evaluating the sustainability of fisheries.
Any company trying to buy sustainably has to know which fisheries they are buying from, and then evaluate the sustainability of each of those fisheries. It sounds simple, but a company sourcing from hundreds of fisheries would need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars each year just to gather some basic information for decision making- and that is enough to erect a knowledge “barrier” to sustainability for many companies.
FishSource is our answer for companies to overcome that knowledge barrier.
FishSource works by providing a platform for open sharing of the public components of fisheries sustainability analyses. Ninety percent of the work experts do when evaluating the sustainability of different fisheries is simply pulling together and summarizing technical information on fisheries management, stock status and environmental impacts.
Information on FishSource is being updated regularly with data from consultants, government agency reports, and updates or extracts from existing fishery evaluations by non-governmental organizations to major retailers and fish buyers. But our aim is that all the information on FishSource will ultimately come from the foremost experts in each fishery and be rated and commented on openly and transparently by visitors to FishSource.