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. Comprehensive FIPs that have been publicly listed for less than 5 years and have achieved progress within at least the past 36 months; or are in their initial year of listing

 iii. Comprehensive FIPs that have been publicly listed for less than 5 years but have not achieved progress in the prior 36 months

 iv. Fisheries that have entered full assessment for MSC certification, but had not previously been in a publicly listed, comprehensive FIP

 v.  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 for less than 5 years but have not achieved progress in more than 36 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 of ISSF CM 2.4.