The Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) is a Honolulu, Hawai’i-based NGO working to engage seafood supply chains globally in rebuilding depleted fish stocks, reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming, and ensuring sustained economic opportunities for fishing communities. Braddock “Brad” Spear is SFP’s prospecting and outreach director and is responsible for key initiatives ranging from the development of management policies for industrial fisheries to forging relationships between NGOs and stakeholders. SeafoodSource spoke with Spear about SFP’s new strategic plan and how it aims to foster collaboration to take on some of the global seafood industry’s most pressing issues. SeafoodSource: SFP recently revised its long-term strategy. Can you tell us how the strategy has evolved? Spear: SFP turns 20 this year. Looking back, we’ve made tremendous progress in scaling fishery improvement projects around the world, building efficiency and greater impacts into supply chains, and providing major buyers with solutions to monitor and support their sustainability goals and commitments. Despite this progress, many fish stocks are still low or dropping, protected species are still being unintentionally caught and killed by fishing gear, and social issues are as prevalent as ever. Governments in seafood-producing and -processing countries are underresourced to address these...

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The FIP-DB is a comprehensive, publicly available resource that compiles and standardizes data from leading platforms, including SFP’s Improvement Projects Tracker and FisheryProgress.org.

The Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Wholechain to collaborate on traceability and analytics solutions, integrating SFP’s Seafood Metrics system into Wholechain’s traceability software. Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.-based NGO SFP and Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, U.S.A.-based traceability software firm Wholechain signed the MoU on 15 March at the 2026 Seafood Expo North America, aiming to “provide customers with end-to-end source information on seafood, backed by a trusted decision-support tool.” SFP’s Seafood Metrics tool is a data-driven system that aims to help seafood companies better understand the level of sustainability risk present in their supply chains. By leveraging data from SFP’s FishSource database, as well as the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) global production data, the tool allows firms to “not only meet regulatory requirements and consumer expectations but also drive continuous improvement in environmental performance and overall business success,” according to SFP. “Our Seafood Metrics tool applies sustainability insights and risk ratings to wild and farmed sources of seafood from around the world,” SFP Advisory Services Director Mercedes Mendoza said in a release. Meanwhile, Wholechain’s proprietary traceability software tracks seafood across its entire supply chain journey by documenting key data elements at each critical tracking event...

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