According to a recent Global Slavery Index report, seafood companies are failing to prevent forced labor and outright slavery in their supply chains. There are some 300,000 forced-laborers in the Thai fishing industry alone. Many of these people are migrant workers, mostly from Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar.
Provenance is an early adopter of blockchain technology in seafood supply chains. The London-based NGO has pioneered a system that traces pole and line-caught skipjack and yellowfin tuna in Indonesia, all the way from “catch-to-consumer.”
Starting in the so-called “first-mile,” after catching a fish and attaching an RFID tag, local fishermen use handheld devices to scan and upload the digital information to the cloud. This data then lodges itself in Provenance’s blockchain ledger, creating a permanent record as the fish passes through each stage of the supply chain, from traders and suppliers to processors and canners, all the way to end consumers.
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