Austral Fisheries

Terra Moana were engaged by Austral Fisheries, a globally leading sustainable seafood company, to review and assess their operations and provide insights into their crewing arrangements and improvement recommendations going forward in order to meet international best practice.

Social issues in the seafood supply chain are becoming increasingly important, specifically those related to workers and working conditions both in processing and at sea. Terra Moana has partnered with Seafood Matter, a leader in improving seafood supply chain social conditions. We have been engaged by Austral Fisheries to review and assess their operations and provide insights into their crewing arrangements and improvement recommendations going forward in order to meet international best practice.

Report and Analysis

The team provided a social conditions gap analysis report and review against international best practice to achieve a higher level of compliance against the best available social accountability guidelines for Austral Fisheries. 

 

At the 2017 Pacific Tuna Conference, Marcelo Hidalgo of Seafood Matter presented an overview of the social assessment approach he had developed.  Katherine immediately saw the value of the assessment tool and potential application with Austral Fisheries.

Read the report

Austral Fisheries approached Terra Moana to help them understand the rapidly changing modern slavery fisheries arena. Terra Moana partnered with SeafoodMatter to conduct the first assessment of Austral’s social accountability. The first Austral assessment identified actions they could take to improve their social accountability. That was subsequently re-assessed by SeafoodMatter and Terra Moana in 2018 and Austral had implemented many excellent steps to improve the treatment of workers on board. Austral was able to then use these reports, and its new social accountability management approach to complete its Modern Slavery Statement under Australian law. Terra Moana and SeafoodMatter went on to form On-Board Social Accountability (OSA) International to develop social accountability in seafood.

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