2.5 Transparency in Reporting Progress Against ISSF Five-Year Goal

The ISSF 2023-2027 Strategic Plan, Continuously Improving Global Tuna Fishery Sustainability sets out a five-year goal for completion at the end of the plan term:

By the end of 2027, all tuna fisheries from which ISSF participating companies source can meet and maintain the MSC certification standard* or there is a clear roadmap and timeline in place to meet this standard that is underpinned by the best-available science.

*ISSF will seek to achieve conformance with MSC’s then current performance indicators at an 80 score level, which is sufficient

1.  In order to track progress against this goal over the plan term, processors, traders, importers, transporters, marketers and others involved in the seafood industry shall publish by March 15, 2024 (representing tuna purchases for the prior calendar year), and update annually thereafter:

a) The percentage of their purchases (measured in round ton equivalents) for each of the following Fishery Source categories:

 i. Fisheries certified against the then current MSC Standard and eligible to use the MSC label

 ii. Fisheries that have entered full assessment for MSC certification

iii. Fisheries in the MSC Fisheries In Transition to MSC (ITM) program

iv. Comprehensive FIPs that have been publicly listed and have achieved progress within at least the past 24 months; or are in their initial year of listing

v. Comprehensive FIPs that have been publicly listed but have not achieved progress in the prior 24 months

 vi.  None of the above

b) A roadmap and timeline to increase the percentage of their purchases from fisheries certified against the then current MSC Standard and eligible to use the MSC label

c) A roadmap and timeline to decrease the percentage of their purchases from Comprehensive FIPs that have been publicly listed but have not achieved progress in more than 24 months

d) A roadmap and timeline to decrease the percentage of their purchase from the “none of the above” category

2. Disclosures made by ISSF Participating Companies under paragraph 1 of this Conservation Measure will satisfy the disclosures required for the exemption in paragraph 3(a) of ISSF CM 2.4.

3. If ISSF Participating Companies voluntarily elect to publish additional purchase statistics using information published for vessels on ISSF’s Vessels in Other Sustainability Initiatives (VOSI) list, the accuracy of such disclosures shall be verified by ISSF compliance auditors.