Seafish Seafood Ethics Common Language Group

The Seafood Ethics Common Language Group (SECLG) provides a safe meeting space to discuss the key ethical issues faced by the international seafood industry. The group looks at social welfare issues that affect the UK seafood supply chain, whether in the UK or seafood imported into the UK. This covers human trafficking, labour abuses, child labour, debt bondage, forced labour, migrant workers, and modern slavery. It is an opportunity to share new ideas or best practice case studies from around the world. We have added links to presentations given at recent SECLG meetings which might be useful and of interest.

Catch up with past meetings – Social indicators – SECLG ten years on (10 July 2024)

SECLG first met in July 2014, and since then has provided a forum to bring together seafood stakeholders to look at human rights issues in seafood supply chains, explore shared collective solutions and collaborate. This meeting looked at what has happened in the last ten years, and looked ahead at the new Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) and what this will mean going forward. The presentations are to come.

Morning session – SECLG ten years on (July 2014 – July 2024) different perspectives

Afternoon session – The legislative framework – what is coming, and what this could mean

The role of certification – How standards have evolved over the last ten years? What next?

Catch up with past meetings – How the supply chain is addressing emerging issues and challenges (5 March 2024)

There are complex issues and concerns about labour and human rights issues, across many countries and a wide range of products. This challenges the reputation of the seafood sector and is too big and too complex an issue for any individual company or organisation to tackle on its own. This meeting was an opportunity to look at some of the initiatives that have been developed, or are developing now, to address these issues.

 

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