tracing the shrimp supply farmer at sirvichai farm in thailand seafood production around the world including shrimp farming tant for seafood buyers to ensure responsi- ble production," says caroline tippett wwf senior director of seafood engage- shrimp farms to transition to asc certifi- tal and social requirements "our relationship with companies like costco has been invaluable to driving reach many farmers and fisheries around the world through costco's global supply to improve their practices." partner in moving toward more sustain- able seafood harvesting practices," says dising manager of costco's meat and ensures we're driving our supply chains be working in the right direction.” photo courtesy of marine gold traceability refers to the documentation of all the steps in sourc- distributing a product traceability is essential to maintaining it requires producers to have effective measures to control day-to-day operations "every lot of shrimp factory has a unique identifying code," says biologist and vice president of quality assurance at harvest supplier for more production date us to trace finished product from farm to bag."-lb has been an active player through its work to bring about complete traceability and "we worked to identify the 'shrimp feed' used in the supply chains," says director at mrg and an stf board missing link in traceability-farmers not recording feed lots properly—and fixed it our shrimp farmers now understand that the seafood task force address sustainability and social and traceability issues with farmed shrimp media and ngos were discovering dire cases of forced labor and human trafficking in thailand's seafood supply chain charoen pokphand foods and costco teamed up to create the stf in an effort to ensure ethical sustainable shrimp and eth- ical seafood harvesting practices costco connection for more on costco's sustainable fisheries ability-fisheries.html better packaging in addition to quality suppliers are always look- ing to improve the other pieces of the final product such as packaging "we are in the process of removing a coating on the cardboard that the shrimp bags are packaged in," says marc statdfield costco frozen foods buyer "removing the coating allows for more packaging to be recycled." "we are also making improvements to the bag to improve the sustainabil- ity of the packaging."-lb
