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Building a roadmap for effective mobile technology to sustain fisheries and improve fisher livelihoods The need for improved fisheries data is a major challenge for sustainable fisheries management in many emerging economies. As is the case with industries such as health care, mobile technology may offer solutions to meet some of these challenges. Developing this opportunity, however, requires technology that collects meaningful data and program design that incentivizes appropriate use of that technology. In May of 2015, the organization 50in10, an initiative to promote global…

Reports of overfishing, Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) activities, human rights abuses, and fraud continue to tarnish the reputation of the global seafood industry. At the same time, companies practicing environmental and social responsibility are not rewarded for their efforts. Traceability is often held up as the answer to this broken system, but traceability tends to mean different things to different people, and rarely is deployed as a full-chain solution. Through years of engagement with seafood businesses and technology companies, Future of Fish has…